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