Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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