Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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