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