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)

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Manly Tears Humans Are Bastards The Lost Lenore The Quiet One Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dual Wielding Re-Cut You Killed My Father Big Brother Instinct Fatal Flaw Scenery Gorn Ungrateful Bastard Bilingual Bonus folderlabel Visual Pun Freudian Excuse Unspoken Plan Guarantee Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Wicked Cultured Broken Pedestal Overprotective Dad Due to the Dead No Ending Important Haircut Eagleland Bloody Hilarious Badass Boast Dull Surprise Last-Name Basis Off with His Head! He Knows Too Much Adaptation Distillation Video Credits Dressing as the Enemy Didn't Think This Through Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Made of Iron Department of Redundancy Department Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Stylistic Suck Fake Shemp It's Personal The Smart Guy Shown Their Work Canon Foreigner Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Hoist by His Own Petard Only in It for the Money Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dogged Nice Guy Psychological Thriller Christmas Movies Index Mr. Fanservice Neck Snap Logo Joke Brick Joke Ambiguous Disorder It Will Never Catch On Dropped a Bridge on Him Spiritual Successor Revenge Batman Gambit Drugs Are Bad Funny Background Event Anti-Hero Auto Erotica Insult Backfire Offscreen Moment of Awesome Product Placement Flashback The Ditz Camera Abuse Roaring Rampage of Revenge Room Full of Crazy Adaptation Name Change The Smurfette Principle Groin Attack Danny Peary Cult Movies List Affably Evil Mugging the Monster Villainous Breakdown Dying Moment of Awesome Cool Shades Breaking the Fourth Wall Dramatic Gun Cock Blood Knight No Antagonist Parental Abandonment Scary Black Man Sassy Black Woman Evil Sounds Deep Deal with the Devil All There in the Script Big Bad Duumvirate Race Against the Clock The Chick Bring My Brown Pants Adaptation Dye-Job Arc Words The X of Y Instant Death Bullet Playing Gertrude Slashed Throat Genre Savvy Needs Wiki Magic Love Loophole Abuse Four-Temperament Ensemble Gender Flip Death by Sex Double Entendre Bittersweet Ending Defrosting Ice Queen Gone Horribly Right Romantic Comedy Vomit Discretion Shot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Would Hurt a Child Market-Based Title Ax-Crazy An Aesop Neck Lift Manipulative Bastard The Hero Film Noir Not Even Bothering with the Accent Brutal Honesty Rule of Symbolism Malevolent Masked Men Failed a Spot Check Shower Scene Comically Missing the Point Big Eater Made of Explodium Kids Are Cruel Leitmotif Jerk with a Heart of Gold Shirtless Scene Better to Die than Be Killed Decoy Protagonist Biopic Exact Words Rated M for Manly Well-Intentioned Extremist 20 Minutes into the Future Zombie Stories Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Final Girl Knight Templar Cat Fight Wounded Gazelle Gambit Manic Pixie Dream Girl Undying Loyalty Implacable Man World of Ham Ass Shove Aluminum Christmas Trees Hollywood Law Manchild Nice Guy Stealth Pun Corpsing The Sociopath Continuity Nod Mystery and Detective Films Body Horror Animated Credits Opening Disproportionate Retribution Catapult Nightmare The Ghost Spell My Name with an "S" Actor Allusion Villain Opening Scene Fourth Date Marriage Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Morality Pet In the Back It's All About Me You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Demoted to Extra Not Quite Dead Villain Protagonist Action Prologue Offscreen Teleportation Shout-Out As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bond One-Liner Chase Scene Heel Realization Defiant to the End Politically Incorrect Villain Badass Normal Action Genre Rule of Cool Bloodless Carnage Not What It Looks Like Pet the Dog No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Dreaded Frame-Up Obviously Evil Disguised in Drag Eldritch Abomination Disappeared Dad Corrupt Corporate Executive Ambiguous Ending Fanservice Extra Evil Plan Adaptational Villainy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Parental Substitute No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Madness Mantra Action Girl Mood Whiplash Your Cheating Heart Easily Forgiven Retcon Only a Flesh Wound Bloodier and Gorier All for Nothing Slasher Smile Thriller Evil vs. Evil Armor-Piercing Question Beware the Nice Ones Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Face–Heel Turn Stalker with a Crush Captain Ersatz Informed Ability This Is Gonna Suck Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Hope Spot Works Set in World War II Fantastic Racism Improbable Weapon User Taking You with Me Cool Old Guy Does Not Like Shoes Alas, Poor Villain Setting Update Imagine Spot Evil Is Petty Green-Eyed Monster Card-Carrying Villain Those Two Guys Take a Third Option Disney Death Pre-Mortem One-Liner Stealth Hi/Bye Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Anguished Declaration of Love Ripped from the Headlines Improvised Weapon Overly Long Gag Hollywood Darkness Properly Paranoid Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Death of a Child Age Lift Eureka Moment Guile Hero Fiery Redhead Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Abhorrent Admirer Race Lift Fan Disservice True Companions Jerkass Dramatic Irony Redshirt Army Curse Cut Short Dirty Coward Eiffel Tower Effect Mama Bear As Himself Attempted Rape Badass Bookworm Public Domain Feature Films Immune to Bullets One Steve Limit Advertised Extra Early-Bird Cameo Agony of the Feet Title Drop Not So Above It All The Cavalry Sinister Minister Even Evil Has Standards Pyrrhic Victory Blatant Lies Missing Mom Large Ham Dark Reprise Television Movie Index Say My Name Homage Kick the Dog Jerkass Has a Point Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Is a Crapshoot Awesome, but Impractical Fainting Noodle Incident Fatal Family Photo Artistic License – Gun Safety Papa Wolf Meaningful Echo Cool Old Lady Black Best Friend Framing Device Pimped-Out Dress Index of Film Westerns Flipping the Bird Bare Your Midriff Cool Car Closed Circle Laser-Guided Karma Darker and Edgier Sexy Discretion Shot Slap-Slap-Kiss Vampire Fiction Rape as Drama Mooks Unwitting Instigator of Doom Plot Hole Red Herring The Faceless Epic Fail Adaptational Attractiveness Belligerent Sexual Tension Up to Eleven Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies My Beloved Smother Trailers Always Spoil Animal Motifs Bar Brawl Tempting Fate Get Out! 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Epilogue Bad Boss She Cleans Up Nicely Gilligan Cut Ambiguously Gay Bowdlerise Japanese Films Even Evil Has Loved Ones Same Language Dub Ominous Latin Chanting Badass Grandpa A God Am I Married to the Job Artistic License – Military Empathic Environment Artistic License – Biology Australian Movies Annoying Younger Sibling Accidental Murder After the End Big "NO!" Stock Footage Alpha Bitch Real Life Writes the Plot In Name Only Shut Up, Hannibal! Translation Convention No Name Given Token Minority Dirty Cop Jump Scare Break the Cutie Despair Event Horizon Aside Glance Big-Bad Ensemble Maybe Ever After Outrun the Fireball Coming-of-Age Story Interrupted Suicide Posthumous Character One-Man Army Abusive Parents Car Fu And I Must Scream Affectionate Parody Eye Scream Credits Gag Daddy's Girl Intrepid Reporter Freeze-Frame Bonus Motor Mouth Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Brother–Sister Incest Cloudcuckoolander The Vamp Dark and Troubled Past Did Not Get the Girl Cool Guns Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Science Fiction Films Deliberately Monochrome Reckless Gun Usage Meaningful Name The Dragon Honor Before Reason Creative Closing Credits Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fate Worse than Death Serious Business Hypocritical Humor Red Oni, Blue Oni Developing Doomed Characters The '50s You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Precision F-Strike Does This Remind You of Anything? 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