Tropescilloscope: Catapult Nightmare

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

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