Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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More Tropes Eureka Moment Belligerent Sexual Tension Alliterative Name Australian Movies Death by Sex Establishing Character Moment For Want of a Nail Superhero My Greatest Failure Crazy-Prepared The Faceless Mama Bear Silence Is Golden Fun with Acronyms Bad "Bad Acting" Fish out of Water Facial Horror Dwindling Party Karmic Death Action Survivor Dressing as the Enemy Canadian Movies The Cavalry Dropped a Bridge on Him I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Due to the Dead Comically Missing the Point Non-Indicative Name Animal Title Index Disproportionate Retribution Hell Is That Noise Exactly What It Says on the Tin One Steve Limit Downer Ending And I Must Scream folderlabel Humans Are Bastards Brick Joke One-Man Army Reality Is Unrealistic Rape as Drama Star-Crossed Lovers Truth in Television Sassy Black Woman Cat Fight Deal with the Devil Taking You with Me Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Villain Opening Scene In the Back Parental Substitute The X of Y No-Sell Wham Shot Bald of Evil The Starscream Hooker with a Heart of Gold Berserk Button Immune to Bullets Gone Horribly Right Rated M for Manly The '70s Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Kick the Son of a Bitch Vampire Fiction The Quiet One Almost Kiss Pragmatic Villainy Made of Iron Wicked Cultured You Have Failed Me Idiot Ball Your Head A-Splode Determinator aka: The Determinator BFG Fake Shemp Everyone Has Standards Homage The Vamp Stealth Hi/Bye Your Cheating Heart Chekhov's Gun Betty and Veronica Dull Surprise Fanservice Ax-Crazy Badass Normal Straight Gay The Load Artistic License – Geography Double Entendre The Hero Dies Bittersweet Ending Market-Based Title Leitmotif Happily Married Not So Above It All Interrupted Suicide The Dog Bites Back Cat Scare Driven to Suicide Stealth Pun Romantic Comedy Creator Cameo Cool Old Lady Rule of Three Bottomless Magazines Foil Bait-and-Switch Heroes Want Redheads Morality Pet Sealed Evil in a Can Broken Aesop May–December Romance Accidental Misnaming Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Rewatch Bonus Butt-Monkey Getting Crap Past the Radar Reality Ensues Dramatic Irony Dissonant Serenity Here We Go Again! Awesome, but Impractical Take That! Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Nice Guy Reality Has No Subtitles The Ditz Death by Irony Ass Shove Red Eyes, Take Warning Posthumous Character Half the Man He Used to Be Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor A Date with Rosie Palms "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Damsel in Distress The End... Or Is It? Body Horror Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Self-Deprecation Malevolent Masked Men Vacation Films Attempted Rape The Sociopath Documentary Missing Mom Rule of Cool Naïve Newcomer Corrupt Corporate Executive Coming-of-Age Story Actually Pretty Funny The Voiceless Took a Level in Badass Setting Update Motor Mouth Bilingual Bonus Deconstruction Mad Scientist A Minor Kidroduction Tempting Fate Fat Bastard Funny Foreigner Corpsing The Atoner Historical Hero Upgrade Nice Hat Author Avatar Adult Fear Only One Name Creative Closing Credits Logo Joke Anachronism Stew Dirty Coward Obfuscating Stupidity Loads and Loads of Characters I Need a Freaking Drink Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Un-Reveal Aluminum Christmas Trees Serious Business Japanese Films Cowboy Cop Death by Adaptation Extreme Doormat Together in Death Drugs Are Bad Drowning My Sorrows I Have Your Wife Jerk with a Heart of Gold Hoist by His Own Petard Red Oni, Blue Oni All There in the Script Karma Houdini Mind Screw Screw This, I'm Outta Here! An Axe to Grind timeperiod Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Madness Mantra Covers Always Lie Ambiguously Gay Red Herring The Hero Mercy Kill After the End Apocalypse How Captain Obvious Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Casting Gag Ms. Fanservice Anguished Declaration of Love Spanner in the Works Film Noir Plucky Comic Relief Science Fiction Films Took a Level in Jerkass Horror Films No OSHA Compliance Adapted Out Decoy Protagonist Running Gag Defrosting Ice Queen Evil Brit Evil Is Petty Names to Run Away from Really Fast Novelization Noodle Incident Fantasy Films Freudian Excuse Disappeared Dad Distracted by the Sexy Drives Like Crazy Smoking Is Cool Implacable Man Break the Haughty Pretty in Mink Dumb Blonde Italian Films The Alleged Car Fantastic Racism Daylight Horror Early Installment Weirdness Fingore Eye Scream My Beloved Smother Thriller Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Cool Shades Animal Motifs The '80s Batman Gambit Meaningful Echo Bad Boss Stock Footage Combat Pragmatist Curse Cut Short Bunny-Ears Lawyer Creepy Child Peek-a-Boo Corpse All There in the Manual Revenge Shoot the Shaggy Dog Romantic False Lead Major Injury Underreaction Those Two Guys Show Within a Show Bullying a Dragon Horror Comedy Index of Film Westerns Time Skip Action Prologue Even Evil Has Loved Ones No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Hope Spot Last-Name Basis Nothing Is Scarier Men Are the Expendable Gender Sir Swears-a-Lot Knight Templar Scenery Porn Parental Neglect Needs Wiki Magic Love Love at First Sight Foregone Conclusion Hollywood Law Obviously Evil Big-Bad Ensemble Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Same Language Dub Visual Pun Every Car Is a Pinto Historical Villain Upgrade Mr. Fanservice Jerk Jock Daddy's Girl Never Found the Body Demoted to Extra The Oner You Killed My Father Ungrateful Bastard Spell My Name with an "S" British Films Captain Ersatz Exact Words Continuity Nod Paper-Thin Disguise Earn Your Happy Ending Random Events Plot Parental Abandonment Works Set in World War II Blood Knight Ripped from the Headlines Does This Remind You of Anything? Roaring Rampage of Revenge Match Cut From Bad to Worse Suspiciously Similar Substitute Lampshade Hanging Empathic Environment The Great Depression She's Got Legs Not What It Looks Like Dark Reprise Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Evil Laugh All for Nothing Shell-Shocked Veteran Military and Warfare Films Married to the Job Greater-Scope Villain Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Calling the Old Man Out Alpha Bitch Composite Character Disguised in Drag Race Against the Clock Love Triangle Older Than They Look It Can Think Film Series Bar Brawl German Films Action Girl Fatal Family Photo Enemy Mine Bond Villain Stupidity Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Mr. Exposition An Arm and a Leg Authority Equals Asskicking Badass Bookworm True Companions Frame-Up Police are Useless Spiritual Successor Fainting Heel–Face Turn Abhorrent Admirer Gilligan Cut Cool Old Guy A.I. Is a Crapshoot Tagline Drill Sergeant Nasty Big Eater All Just a Dream No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Genre Shift Maybe Ever After Instant Death Bullet Anti-Hero Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other In Name Only Badass Boast Put on a Bus Improvised Weapon Hero of Another Story Historical-Domain Character I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Genre Throwback Cassandra Truth Femme Fatale And the Adventure Continues The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hypocrite Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Word of God The Power of Love Our Vampires Are Different Pet the Dog Ascended Extra Only Sane Man Properly Paranoid Public Domain Feature Films From Nobody to Nightmare The Musical Conspicuous CG Rousing Speech Shirtless Scene Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bound and Gagged Grey and Gray Morality Scary Black Man Artistic License – Physics Slashed Throat French Films He Knows Too Much Wrong Genre Savvy N-Word Privileges Big Bad Psychological Thriller Adaptation Distillation Blatant Lies Ominous Latin Chanting Freeze-Frame Bonus Better to Die than Be Killed Let's Get Dangerous! The Stoic Shout-Out Fiery Redhead "The Reason You Suck" Speech Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bland-Name Product Bloody Hilarious Very Loosely Based on a True Story Super Strength Heterosexual Life-Partners Affectionate Parody I Did What I Had to Do Defiant to the End Mistaken for Gay Broken Bird Would Hurt a Child Manipulative Bastard Groin Attack Four-Temperament Ensemble Final Girl Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Rule of Funny Fate Worse than Death I'm a Humanitarian Those Wacky Nazis Fan Disservice Bring My Brown Pants Ironic Echo Villain Protagonist Cain and Abel Gainax Ending Insistent Terminology Deliberate Values Dissonance Dramedy How We Got Here Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Say My Name Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Costume Porn Mood Whiplash Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Determinator Never Trust a Trailer Wretched Hive Back from the Dead Big Bad Duumvirate Didn't Think This Through Dark Action Girl Book-Ends Meaningful Name Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Villain Song Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Black Comedy Rape MacGuffin Russian Films Intrepid Reporter What You Are in the Dark Blood from the Mouth Henpecked Husband Precision F-Strike Bury Your Gays Adorkable Sinister Minister What Happened to the Mouse? Intergenerational Friendship Black Comedy Small Name, Big Ego Failed a Spot Check Badass in a Nice Suit Martial Arts Movie Affably Evil Easily Forgiven Sanity Slippage Fire-Forged Friends This Is Gonna Suck Television Movie Index A God Am I Skewed Priorities NO INDOOR VOICE Biopic Irony Badass Grandpa Arranged Marriage Beware the Nice Ones Insult Backfire Deliberately Monochrome Big "NO!" Adaptation Dye-Job Good Is Not Nice Reckless Gun Usage Death Seeker Video Credits Genre Savvy Manchild Famous Last Words Artistic License – Military Annoying Younger Sibling Mystery and Detective Films 20 Minutes into the Future Call-Forward Stepford Smiler Meaningful Background Event As the Good Book Says... Re-Cut Suddenly SHOUTING! Papa Wolf In Medias Res Lighter and Softer War Is Hell Trailers Always Spoil Real Life Writes the Plot Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Toplessness from the Back Vitriolic Best Buds Death of a Child Male Frontal Nudity Beard of Evil Dark Is Not Evil Developing Doomed Characters Dual Wielding Not Even Bothering with the Accent Worthy Opponent Sports Stories Despair Event Horizon Improbable Weapon User Arc Words Adaptation Expansion No Ending Black and Gray Morality Guile Hero Eagleland Meet Cute The Smurfette Principle Unusually Uninteresting Sight Improbable Aiming Skills Big Brother Instinct Big Damn Heroes Manic Pixie Dream Girl Death Glare Bowdlerise The Stoner Children Are Innocent Villainous Breakdown Neck Lift Narrator Psychopathic Manchild There Is No Kill Like Overkill Chekhov's Skill Serial Killer Spiteful Spit Tap on the Head Laughing Mad Domestic Abuse For the Evulz Blackmail Title Drop Manly Tears Foreshadowing Pyrrhic Victory Punny Name Politically Incorrect Villain Psycho for Hire Zombie Stories Undying Loyalty Expy Get Out! Plot Hole Have a Gay Old Time Stuff Blowing Up Ship Tease Vomit Indiscretion Shot Bavarian Fire Drill Make It Look Like an Accident No Celebrities Were Harmed Smug Snake Hate Sink Unresolved Sexual Tension Crucified Hero Shot Heroic Sacrifice Male Gaze Big Applesauce Boom, Headshot! Dark and Troubled Past Chewing the Scenery Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Kick the Dog Gold Digger Bond One-Liner Red Shirt The Chessmaster Left the Background Music On Whole Plot Reference Alas, Poor Villain Take a Third Option Tranquil Fury Villain with Good Publicity It's All About Me As Long as It Sounds Foreign Babies Ever After Gory Discretion Shot Pimped-Out Dress Ambiguous Ending Car Fu The Smart Guy The '90s Dirty Cop Hollywood Darkness Disney Villain Death Department of Redundancy Department Kill 'em All Evil Is Hammy Heel Realization More Dakka Sacrificial Lion Overly Long Gag Token Minority Animated Credits Opening Dogged Nice Guy And Starring Eldritch Abomination Product Placement Totally Radical B-Movie The Ghost Author Appeal Neck Snap Chase Scene Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Victoria's Secret Compartment Rule of Symbolism Training Montage Artistic License – Biology Shown Their Work Taking the Bullet Funny Background Event Becoming the Mask The Dragon Moment Killer Protagonist Title "Shaggy Dog" Story Honor Before Reason Destination Defenestration Ambiguous Disorder Jerkass The Alcoholic La Résistance Deus ex Machina Catch-Phrase Never My Fault Artistic License – Gun Safety Badass Longcoat Soundtrack Dissonance Cloudcuckoolander Faux Affably Evil Camp Gay Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Police Brutality Only Known by Their Nickname Punctuated! For! Emphasis! My God, What Have I Done? Canon Foreigner Adaptation Name Change Sadistic Choice Credits Gag Shut Up, Hannibal! Eyepatch of Power Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Danny Peary Cult Movies List Jump Scare Those Two Bad Guys Imagine Spot Hero Antagonist Adaptational Heroism Amusing Injuries The Mafia Gorn Country Matters The Ace Broken Pedestal Kill It with Fire Guns Akimbo Red Right Hand Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Loophole Abuse Cool Car The Big Guy Vomit Discretion Shot Villain Ball Room Full of Crazy Fanservice Extra Flashback Age Lift Evil vs. Evil Gender Flip Brainless Beauty Wounded Gazelle Gambit Artistic License – Law Informed Ability Riddle for the Ages Epic Fail As You Know Sequel Escalation Disney Death Flipping the Bird The Lost Lenore Pay Evil unto Evil Dirty Old Man Arch-Enemy Music Stories Beauty Is Never Tarnished Redemption Equals Death Jitter Cam Heroic BSoD Insane Troll Logic Kubrick Stare The '60s Award-Bait Song The Casanova Mugging the Monster Woman Scorned Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Parental Incest Black Best Friend Overprotective Dad Dying Moment of Awesome Sci-Fi Horror Dies Wide Open Retired Badass Double-Meaning Title Mexican Standoff Stylistic Suck Does Not Like Shoes Action Genre Kids Are Cruel Important Haircut Even Evil Has Standards Adaptational Attractiveness Based on a True Story Playing Gertrude Not Using the "Z" Word Closed Circle Central Theme What the Hell, Hero? A Father to His Men It Will Never Catch On Big Fancy House The Bully Actor Allusion Leaning on the Fourth Wall Evil Counterpart Card-Carrying Villain Slasher Smile Crazy Jealous Guy Evil Plan Call-Back Lock and Load Montage The Reveal Light Is Not Good Too Dumb to Live Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Large Ham Character Development Slap-Slap-Kiss Black Dude Dies First Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dramatic Gun Cock Break the Cutie Jerkass Has a Point Cruel and Unusual Death You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Stalker with a Crush Oh, Crap! Handicapped Badass Scare Chord Cold-Blooded Torture Artistic License – History Translation Convention Eiffel Tower Effect All Men Are Perverts Humiliation Conga Leave the Camera Running Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Faking the Dead Bolivian Army Ending Fatal Flaw Line-of-Sight Name Beta Couple Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Mole Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Offscreen Moment of Awesome Did Not Get the Girl Deadpan Snarker Up to Eleven Our Zombies Are Different Unusual Euphemism The Brute The Stinger Soft Glass Aside Glance Epic Movie Accidental Murder Scenery Gorn The Remake Be Careful What You Wish For Expository Hairstyle Change Cool Guns Silent Movie Recycled IN SPACE! Woman in White Darkest Hour Camera Abuse Demonic Possession It's Personal Shipper on Deck Offscreen Teleportation Shower Scene Adults Are Useless The Film of the Book Sexy Discretion Shot Gratuitous English The Place Evil-Detecting Dog World of Ham He Who Fights Monsters Armor-Piercing Question Bare Your Midriff Agony of the Feet Bloodier and Gorier Hair-Trigger Temper Off with His Head! "Awesome McCool" Name Ghost Fiction Redshirt Army Mundane Made Awesome Man on Fire The Cameo Well-Intentioned Extremist Unreliable Narrator Race Lift Wham Line Antagonist Title Chiaroscuro The Lancer Storming the Castle Not Quite Dead Anti-Villain Pre-Mortem One-Liner Retirony Anyone Can Die Only a Flesh Wound Amoral Attorney Extremely Short Timespan Anachronic Order Brother–Sister Incest Advertised Extra Not So Stoic As Himself Laser-Guided Karma Unspoken Plan Guarantee Slasher Movie Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas One-Word Title Knife Nut Real Life The Bad Guy Wins No Name Given Spared by the Adaptation Rich Bitch The Dreaded The '50s Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Face Death with Dignity Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Reasonable Authority Figure Killed Mid-Sentence Hypocritical Humor Sequel Hook Naked People Are Funny Monumental Damage Bloodless Carnage Punch-Clock Villain Chekhov's Gunman Crapsack World Twist Ending Dutch Angle Only in It for the Money Breaking the Fourth Wall She Cleans Up Nicely Evil Sounds Deep Mooks Yandere Suspiciously Specific Denial Contrived Coincidence Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Cluster F-Bomb Catapult Nightmare Hong Kong Films Face–Heel Turn Hidden Depths Air-Vent Passageway Brutal Honesty Depraved Bisexual Pretty Little Headshots Green-Eyed Monster Celebrity Paradox Bi the Way Adaptational Villainy Once More, with Clarity! Fourth Date Marriage Curb-Stomp Battle Christmas Movies Index Adaptational Badass Mighty Whitey "Well Done, Son!" Guy Pragmatic Adaptation Obstructive Bureaucrat Sole Survivor Asshole Victim Would Hit a Girl Film Noir Index Auto Erotica Throwing Your Sword Always Works Diabolus ex Machina Outrun the Fireball The Chick Five-Man Band Not So Different Really Gets Around Refuge in Audacity Rasputinian Death Made of Explodium Early-Bird Cameo '80s Hair Mythology Gag Historical In-Joke Grievous Bottley Harm Darker and Edgier No Antagonist Friend to All Children All Girls Want Bad Boys Framing Device Poor Communication Kills An Aesop Abusive Parents Retcon