Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

Nothing goes right for this character. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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