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