Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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