Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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