Tropescilloscope: Catapult Nightmare

Flinging right up or falling out of bed after a Nightmare Sequence. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Race Lift Insistent Terminology Fanservice Extra Bland-Name Product Reality Is Unrealistic Face–Heel Turn Frame-Up The Reveal Older Than They Look Eureka Moment Armor-Piercing Question Worthy Opponent Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Evil Sounds Deep Mama Bear Evil Is Petty Big Fancy House Bring My Brown Pants All There in the Script Getting Crap Past the Radar Gorn Take a Third Option Meaningful Background Event Anti-Villain Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Cowboy Cop Silence Is Golden An Arm and a Leg Needs Wiki Magic Love Bilingual Bonus Slasher Smile Hero of Another Story Even Evil Has Standards Suspiciously Similar Substitute Black Dude Dies First Shoot the Shaggy Dog Corrupt Corporate Executive Parental Substitute Adaptational Villainy Half the Man He Used to Be Sci-Fi Horror Shown Their Work Adaptational Attractiveness Drugs Are Bad Line-of-Sight Name Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dressing as the Enemy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Index of Film Westerns Cruel and Unusual Death Artistic License – Geography Mexican Standoff Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie All Men Are Perverts Revenge My Greatest Failure Despair Event Horizon Evil Is Hammy After the End Happily Married The Alleged Car No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Framing Device Skewed Priorities Diabolus ex Machina Lighter and Softer Determinator aka: The Determinator Informed Ability Really Gets Around Sequel Escalation Television Movie Index Laser-Guided Karma Honor Before Reason Brick Joke Adaptational Badass Almost Kiss Death by Sex Time Skip Accidental Murder Darker and Edgier Lampshade Hanging The Starscream A Date with Rosie Palms Rich Bitch Made of Iron Bad Boss Awesome, but Impractical The Mafia The Hero Dies Gory Discretion Shot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique As You Know Deadpan Snarker Training Montage Award-Bait Song Those Two Bad Guys Dumb Blonde Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Oh, Crap! 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La Résistance Historical In-Joke Gratuitous English Well-Intentioned Extremist Defiant to the End Show Within a Show Fire-Forged Friends Death Glare Meet Cute Alas, Poor Villain NO INDOOR VOICE I Have Your Wife Never Trust a Trailer Big Damn Heroes Amoral Attorney Historical Villain Upgrade Same Language Dub Hollywood Law Obstructive Bureaucrat You Killed My Father Science Fiction Films Friend to All Children Air-Vent Passageway Breaking the Fourth Wall Villain Song Animal Title Index Animated Credits Opening Dies Wide Open No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Yandere Important Haircut Light Is Not Good Bunny-Ears Lawyer Together in Death Beauty Is Never Tarnished Storming the Castle Mystery and Detective Films The Smart Guy 20 Minutes into the Future Big-Bad Ensemble Jerkass Has a Point Say My Name Jerk Jock Spared by the Adaptation Naïve Newcomer Heterosexual Life-Partners Chekhov's Skill Neck Snap Red Right Hand Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Cluster F-Bomb Dramatic Irony Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pragmatic Adaptation Refuge in Audacity Sexy Discretion Shot Curse Cut Short An Axe to Grind The Un-Reveal Combat Pragmatist Insane Troll Logic Recycled IN SPACE! 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Is a Crapshoot Big Bad Hope Spot Pretty in Mink Overly Long Gag Eldritch Abomination Pyrrhic Victory Bloody Hilarious Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Zombie Stories Animal Motifs Documentary Due to the Dead Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Voiceless Adorkable Darkest Hour Outrun the Fireball All for Nothing Military and Warfare Films Funny Background Event Bavarian Fire Drill Sanity Slippage Novelization Video Credits Driven to Suicide Dual Wielding Artistic License – History Leave the Camera Running The Lost Lenore You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Only Sane Man Badass Normal Unspoken Plan Guarantee Karmic Death Kill 'em All Abhorrent Admirer Retcon Mind Screw Slashed Throat Police Brutality Auto Erotica Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Not Using the "Z" Word Loophole Abuse Vacation Films Alliterative Name The Great Depression Accidental Misnaming Ship Tease Off with His Head! 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