Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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

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