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