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