Tropescilloscope: Catapult Nightmare

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

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Character Development Combat Pragmatist Corpsing Riddle for the Ages Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Ambiguous Ending Improbable Aiming Skills It Will Never Catch On The X of Y Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Plot Hole Insane Troll Logic The Quiet One Freudian Excuse More Dakka True Companions Ascended Extra Karmic Death Up to Eleven Stepford Smiler Villainous Breakdown Take That! Historical-Domain Character Word of God One-Man Army Sanity Slippage Manchild Shout-Out Let's Get Dangerous! 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Is Serious Business The Film of the Book Gone Horribly Right Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Facial Horror Genre Savvy Groin Attack Redemption Equals Death Shown Their Work Bring My Brown Pants Slasher Movie Adaptation Name Change Bait-and-Switch Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Slashed Throat Dramatic Gun Cock Those Two Bad Guys Paper-Thin Disguise Alliterative Name Setting Update Protagonist Title Cain and Abel Implacable Man Only a Flesh Wound Mistaken for Gay Public Domain Feature Films Does Not Like Shoes Evil Counterpart Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Foreshadowing Bad Boss Funny Background Event Irony Black Comedy Henpecked Husband Romantic Comedy Action Prologue Becoming the Mask It's All About Me Woman in White Asshole Victim Aside Glance Here We Go Again! 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Neck Snap Establishing Character Moment Retcon Heroes Want Redheads Beauty Is Never Tarnished Spiteful Spit Bare Your Midriff Sole Survivor Expository Hairstyle Change Leave the Camera Running Death Seeker Lock and Load Montage Almost Kiss Only Sane Man Scenery Gorn Abhorrent Admirer Hypocritical Humor Logo Joke Genre Shift Broken Aesop Attempted Rape Artistic License – Law No Antagonist Left the Background Music On Adult Fear The Faceless Ms. Fanservice Scenery Porn Canon Foreigner I Need a Freaking Drink Failed a Spot Check Big Bad Duumvirate B-Movie Big "NO!" Humans Are Bastards Extremely Short Timespan Manly Tears The Great Depression Meaningful Name Defrosting Ice Queen Victoria's Secret Compartment Alpha Bitch Black and Gray Morality Cluster F-Bomb The End... Or Is It? 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Unresolved Sexual Tension Took a Level in Jerkass Big Bad Half the Man He Used to Be Redshirt Army Beware the Nice Ones Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Fake Shemp There Is No Kill Like Overkill Obfuscating Stupidity After the End Ironic Echo Badass Bookworm Diabolus ex Machina Loophole Abuse Time Skip Psychological Thriller Danny Peary Cult Movies List Breaking the Fourth Wall Death of a Child Malevolent Masked Men Interrupted Suicide Older Than They Look Properly Paranoid Developing Doomed Characters Hypocrite Military and Warfare Films As Himself Not So Different Affably Evil Accidental Misnaming The Chick Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience She Cleans Up Nicely The Casanova Guile Hero Creator Cameo Fiery Redhead Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Hollywood Law Knife Nut Real Life Well-Intentioned Extremist Cowboy Cop Demonic Possession Zombie Stories One Steve Limit Never Trust a Trailer Hell Is That Noise I Did What I Had to Do Horror Comedy The Sociopath Killed Mid-Sentence Pyrrhic Victory Overly Long Gag Dark and Troubled Past Fire-Forged Friends Determinator Off with His Head! 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Romantic False Lead Guns Akimbo Overprotective Dad Precision F-Strike Anachronism Stew Berserk Button Genre Throwback Blood from the Mouth Once More, with Clarity! Sequel Escalation Bowdlerise Unreliable Narrator You Have Failed Me Reckless Gun Usage Alas, Poor Villain Bland-Name Product Truth in Television Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Thriller Artistic License – Physics Canadian Movies Italian Films Everyone Has Standards Jump Scare Greater-Scope Villain Maybe Ever After Would Hit a Girl Stylistic Suck The Remake Bar Brawl Rich Bitch Author Avatar Punny Name Arch-Enemy Reality Has No Subtitles As the Good Book Says... Reality Is Unrealistic Happily Married Not Even Bothering with the Accent Broken Pedestal Show Within a Show Domestic Abuse For the Evulz Stalker with a Crush Outrun the Fireball Black Comedy Rape Badass Grandpa Bi the Way Large Ham Kubrick Stare folderlabel He Knows Too Much Rape as Drama Evil vs. Evil Broken Bird Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mercy Kill