Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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

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