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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Improvised Weapon Combat Pragmatist Brick Joke Meaningful Background Event Did Not Get the Girl Adaptational Attractiveness Creator Cameo Playing Gertrude Wicked Cultured Shirtless Scene Death by Irony Soft Glass Bare Your Midriff Ax-Crazy Military and Warfare Films Retired Badass After the End Bloodier and Gorier The Remake Sacrificial Lion You Have Failed Me Author Appeal The Stoic The Stinger Wounded Gazelle Gambit Curse Cut Short Papa Wolf Big Applesauce Alpha Bitch Distracted by the Sexy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Evil-Detecting Dog Calling the Old Man Out Line-of-Sight Name Bait-and-Switch Scary Black Man Badass Longcoat The Sociopath Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Television Movie Index The Load Lock and Load Montage Empathic Environment Maybe Ever After Evil Plan Famous Last Words The X of Y Lampshade Hanging Tagline Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Chiaroscuro Sanity Slippage Karma Houdini Film Noir Offscreen Teleportation Not Using the "Z" Word Catapult Nightmare Artistic License – Gun Safety Fat Bastard Canadian Movies Get Out! Final Girl Evil Sounds Deep Match Cut Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Translation Convention For Want of a Nail Manchild The Casanova Impaled with Extreme Prejudice This Is Gonna Suck Jitter Cam He Knows Too Much Would Hit a Girl Badass Normal Large Ham Funny Background Event Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Epic Movie Curb-Stomp Battle Stalker with a Crush Gratuitous English It Will Never Catch On Intrepid Reporter Oh, Crap! 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Early-Bird Cameo Jerkass Has a Point Leaning on the Fourth Wall Madness Mantra Arranged Marriage Vacation Films Dumb Blonde Bond Villain Stupidity Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Suspiciously Specific Denial No Celebrities Were Harmed Black Best Friend Bi the Way Foregone Conclusion The Great Depression Bury Your Gays The Dreaded Death Seeker Despair Event Horizon No-Sell Token Minority timeperiod Paper-Thin Disguise Greater-Scope Villain Captain Ersatz Beauty Is Never Tarnished In the Back Naïve Newcomer She Cleans Up Nicely The Chessmaster Eiffel Tower Effect Femme Fatale Honor Before Reason Italian Films O.O.C. Is Serious Business Contrived Coincidence Serial Killer What the Hell, Hero? Star-Crossed Lovers Pyrrhic Victory Conspicuous CG Plucky Comic Relief Frame-Up Improbable Aiming Skills Card-Carrying Villain Russian Films Thriller Amusing Injuries Arch-Enemy Decoy Protagonist Rasputinian Death Taking You with Me Dies Wide Open Pretty in Mink All Just a Dream Make It Look Like an Accident Laughing Mad Genre Savvy Non-Indicative Name And the Adventure Continues Leave the Camera Running Heterosexual Life-Partners Bring My Brown Pants Rewatch Bonus Silence Is Golden Index of Film Westerns Adaptation Distillation Red Right Hand Costume Porn Mighty Whitey Canon Foreigner Hope Spot Broken Bird The Vamp Last-Name Basis Posthumous Character Fainting Heroic Sacrifice Storming the Castle Evil Is Hammy Auto Erotica The Un-Reveal Damsel in Distress Precision F-Strike Fourth Date Marriage Adaptation Name Change Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Genre Shift Tap on the Head Names to Run Away from Really Fast Evil Is Petty Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Rule of Funny Up to Eleven Cruel and Unusual Death Eureka Moment Small Name, Big Ego Mama Bear Informed Ability Belligerent Sexual Tension Fiery Redhead Shut Up, Hannibal! Moment Killer Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Ship Tease Obfuscating Stupidity Kubrick Stare Ambiguous Disorder Sir Swears-a-Lot Psychological Thriller Pre-Mortem One-Liner Narrator Never Trust a Trailer Australian Movies Zombie Stories Blackmail La Résistance Roaring Rampage of Revenge Air-Vent Passageway Cain and Abel Eye Scream Foreshadowing Gender Flip The '50s Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Your Head A-Splode Re-Cut Rated M for Manly A God Am I Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Composite Character Chewing the Scenery Gory Discretion Shot Police are Useless "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bald of Evil Better to Die than Be Killed What Happened to the Mouse? 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Overly Long Gag Missing Mom Anachronism Stew Four-Temperament Ensemble Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Destination Defenestration Film Series Extreme Doormat As Himself Villain Song Blood from the Mouth May–December Romance Dramatic Irony Sexy Discretion Shot Faking the Dead Gold Digger Together in Death Straight Gay Adaptational Heroism Reality Ensues Death by Sex Heroes Want Redheads The Bully N-Word Privileges Failed a Spot Check Those Wacky Nazis Badass Bookworm Flipping the Bird Dramedy Serious Business Mood Whiplash Eyepatch of Power Authority Equals Asskicking Setting Update Aside Glance Married to the Job Psychopathic Manchild One-Man Army Green-Eyed Monster Beware the Nice Ones Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Revenge Take a Third Option Vomit Discretion Shot Abusive Parents Christmas Movies Index Insult Backfire The Lancer Dissonant Serenity Irony Not What It Looks Like The Lost Lenore Animal Motifs folderlabel Comically Missing the Point Redemption Equals Death The '60s Broken Aesop Killed Mid-Sentence The Hero Dies Action Genre Twist Ending One-Word Title Annoying Younger Sibling Earn Your Happy Ending Fatal Family Photo Black and Gray Morality Face Death with Dignity Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Ungrateful Bastard Kids Are Cruel Left the Background Music On Chekhov's Skill Lighter and Softer Gone Horribly Right Double Entendre Refuge in Audacity Those Two Bad Guys Catch-Phrase Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Diabolus ex Machina The '80s Dwindling Party Jerk with a Heart of Gold Pet the Dog Spiritual Successor No Ending Protagonist Title Cool Shades Wham Shot Historical In-Joke As Long as It Sounds Foreign Adorkable Scenery Porn Hooker with a Heart of Gold Artistic License – Physics The Cavalry Rousing Speech A Date with Rosie Palms In Medias Res Ascended Extra Hero of Another Story Sadistic Choice Karmic Death Deus ex Machina Determinator aka: The Determinator Big Damn Heroes Woman Scorned Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Mafia Cool Guns Award-Bait Song Central Theme Darker and Edgier Bavarian Fire Drill Jump Scare Big "NO!" The Dragon Bad "Bad Acting" Funny Foreigner The Hero Throwing Your Sword Always Works Brainless Beauty Badass in a Nice Suit Death of a Child Manly Tears Black Dude Dies First Cassandra Truth Crazy-Prepared Politically Incorrect Villain Rule of Three Off-into-the-Distance Ending Man on Fire Our Vampires Are Different Creepy Child Gilligan Cut Animal Title Index Dirty Old Man Author Avatar Black Comedy Rape Meet Cute Fire-Forged Friends Humiliation Conga Dropped a Bridge on Him Evil Brit Older Than They Look Dirty Cop Retcon Outrun the Fireball Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Made of Explodium Deconstruction Have a Gay Old Time Smoking Is Cool Wham Line Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Title Drop No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Crazy Jealous Guy As You Know Parental Neglect Creative Closing Credits Bunny-Ears Lawyer It's All About Me Bowdlerise Taking the Bullet Expository Hairstyle Change The Place Would Hurt a Child Babies Ever After British Films Asshole Victim The Ghost Music Stories Big Brother Instinct Deal with the Devil Sports Stories Brutal Honesty Unresolved Sexual Tension Nothing Is Scarier Villain Opening Scene Hypocritical Humor Too Dumb to Live Say My Name Bullying a Dragon Fate Worse than Death Your Cheating Heart Reckless Gun Usage Accidental Murder There Is No Kill Like Overkill Stepford Smiler Nice Guy Obstructive Bureaucrat NO INDOOR VOICE Daylight Horror Parental Incest Knife Nut Ominous Latin Chanting Mystery and Detective Films Death Glare Redshirt Army Grievous Bottley Harm Kick the Son of a Bitch Death by Adaptation Drowning My Sorrows Hero Antagonist Villainous Breakdown Fake Shemp Artistic License – Law My Greatest Failure Improbable Weapon User Girl-on-Girl Is Hot He Who Fights Monsters Offscreen Moment of Awesome Cold-Blooded Torture Victoria's Secret Compartment Rape as Drama Men Are the Expendable Gender Time Skip Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Developing Doomed Characters Call-Back Handicapped Badass Manic Pixie Dream Girl And Starring Historical Villain Upgrade Peek-a-Boo Corpse Mugging the Monster Half the Man He Used to Be Malevolent Masked Men Sole Survivor Toplessness from the Back Animated Credits Opening Sequel Escalation Body Horror The Voiceless Light Is Not Good Brother–Sister Incest Romantic Comedy BFG Disney Villain Death Hate Sink Action Survivor Sealed Evil in a Can Age Lift Love Triangle Self-Deprecation How We Got Here Five-Man Band Friend to All Children Artistic License – Military Bloodless Carnage Unreliable Narrator The Chick Insistent Terminology The Alleged Car Aluminum Christmas Trees Mexican Standoff Slap-Slap-Kiss Mr. Exposition Leitmotif Boom, Headshot! Big Bad Duumvirate Skewed Priorities Riddle for the Ages Loophole Abuse Dressing as the Enemy Corrupt Corporate Executive Spared by the Adaptation Very Loosely Based on a True Story Silent Movie Bittersweet Ending Not Quite Dead Artistic License – Geography Mad Scientist Actor Allusion Dark Reprise Our Zombies Are Different Recycled IN SPACE! All There in the Manual Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Male Frontal Nudity Needs Wiki Magic Love Even Evil Has Standards Arc Words Kill It with Fire Bond One-Liner Big Bad German Films Dirty Coward Disney Death Important Haircut Foil B-Movie Beard of Evil Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Big Guy Properly Paranoid Fantastic Racism The Smart Guy Epic Fail Captain Obvious Anti-Hero Horror Comedy Chekhov's Gun Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping War Is Hell Ass Shove Took a Level in Badass Black Comedy Mercy Kill All Girls Want Bad Boys Darkest Hour Random Events Plot Those Two Guys Evil Laugh Badass Grandpa The End... Or Is It? Chase Scene Martial Arts Movie Apocalypse How Deadpan Snarker Yandere Betty and Veronica Anyone Can Die Character Development Determinator Pretty Little Headshots Call-Forward Corpsing Rule of Symbolism Artistic License – History Knight Templar Break the Haughty Department of Redundancy Department Bland-Name Product Getting Crap Past the Radar Almost Kiss Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Parental Substitute Freeze-Frame Bonus One Steve Limit Evil Counterpart Nice Hat Not Even Bothering with the Accent Mooks Actually Pretty Funny French Films Bar Brawl "Shaggy Dog" Story It's Personal Undying Loyalty Adults Are Useless Morality Pet Mythology Gag MacGuffin Never Found the Body Heel Realization Anachronic Order Heroic BSoD In Name Only Credits Gag Never My Fault Pay Evil unto Evil Punch-Clock Villain You Killed My Father Dutch Angle Shout-Out Hell Is That Noise True Companions Adult Fear Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Really Gets Around Humans Are Bastards The Dog Bites Back Logo Joke Real Life Pimped-Out Dress The Alcoholic Didn't Think This Through Obviously Evil Tranquil Fury Daddy's Girl Enemy Mine Does This Remind You of Anything? Spiteful Spit Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Woman in White Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Stealth Hi/Bye Historical Hero Upgrade Shell-Shocked Veteran Naked People Are Funny Cool Old Guy Ripped from the Headlines Double-Meaning Title Alliterative Name Meaningful Echo Motor Mouth Fanservice Extra Book-Ends Word of God Groin Attack Expy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Retirony Breaking the Fourth Wall Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Only Sane Man Parental Abandonment Tempting Fate Immune to Bullets No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Agony of the Feet Unusually Uninteresting Sight Poor Communication Kills Jerkass Drill Sergeant Nasty Spanner in the Works Faux Affably Evil Jerk Jock Face–Heel Turn Villain Protagonist Fun with Acronyms Science Fiction Films Amoral Attorney The '70s The Starscream Guile Hero Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Affably Evil "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Celebrity Paradox I Did What I Had to Do Overprotective Dad Only One Name Back from the Dead Big Fancy House Framing Device Whole Plot Reference The Quiet One Action Prologue Due to the Dead Adaptational Villainy Extremely Short Timespan Hoist by His Own Petard Shipper on Deck Put on a Bus Accidental Misnaming Adaptational Badass Children Are Innocent Horror Films An Arm and a Leg Visual Pun Police Brutality Anguished Declaration of Love Crapsack World Mr. Fanservice And I Must Scream Dull Surprise Advertised Extra Adapted Out Break the Cutie The Faceless Domestic Abuse Superhero Even Evil Has Loved Ones Cool Old Lady Dark Is Not Evil Same Language Dub "Awesome McCool" Name Batman Gambit Disproportionate Retribution Running Gag Well-Intentioned Extremist The Oner Kill 'em All Film Noir Index Super Strength The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Suspiciously Similar Substitute Depraved Bisexual Covers Always Lie Defrosting Ice Queen Be Careful What You Wish For Slasher Movie The Atoner Every Car Is a Pinto