Tropescilloscope: Catapult Nightmare

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

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