Tropescilloscope: Cold-Blooded Torture

Subjecting people to severe pain either for information, as punishment, or out of sadistic pleasure. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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