Tropescilloscope: Catapult Nightmare

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

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