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