Tropescilloscope: Darker and Edgier

When a work that started out light and humorous is Re-tooled to be more "adult". (read more at tvtropes.org)

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