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