Tropescilloscope: Deal with the Devil

A deal that grants you your heart's desire, at a horrible price. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Needs Wiki Magic Love Retcon Morality Pet Ironic Echo Wicked Cultured Race Against the Clock Nothing Is Scarier Heroes Want Redheads Faking the Dead Evil Laugh Pragmatic Villainy All There in the Script Scare Chord Names to Run Away from Really Fast Chiaroscuro The Ghost Offscreen Teleportation British Films Revenge Training Montage Framing Device The Bad Guy Wins Catch-Phrase Artistic License – History Rasputinian Death Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Those Two Guys Famous Last Words The Musical Throwing Your Sword Always Works Mighty Whitey Destination Defenestration Cool Guns Monumental Damage Green-Eyed Monster Brick Joke Love at First Sight Abhorrent Admirer Improbable Aiming Skills Canon Foreigner Dirty Cop Femme Fatale Love Triangle This Is Gonna Suck Stealth Hi/Bye Babies Ever After Visual Pun You Killed My Father Black Best Friend Neck Lift Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold "The Reason You Suck" Speech Took a Level in Jerkass Fanservice Extra Dropped a Bridge on Him Eyepatch of Power Fiery Redhead Amusing Injuries Casting Gag Knife Nut Arch-Enemy Pay Evil unto Evil Dark Action Girl Noodle Incident Big Bad Evil Counterpart Contrived Coincidence Driven to Suicide Big Damn Heroes Our Zombies Are Different Creepy Child Adult Fear Cassandra Truth Large Ham The '80s Manic Pixie Dream Girl Earn Your Happy Ending Really Gets Around Gainax Ending Nice Hat Zombie Stories Card-Carrying Villain Depraved Bisexual Diabolus ex Machina Once More, with Clarity! 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Karmic Death folderlabel Jerk Jock Bound and Gagged Precision F-Strike My Greatest Failure Parental Substitute Gory Discretion Shot Small Name, Big Ego Captain Obvious As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mooks Politically Incorrect Villain The Smurfette Principle The Lancer Trailers Always Spoil Face Death with Dignity Loophole Abuse Punny Name Dramatic Gun Cock Adaptational Heroism Central Theme I Have Your Wife Big-Bad Ensemble Evil Sounds Deep Cowboy Cop Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Big Bad Duumvirate Villainous Breakdown Bilingual Bonus Never Trust a Trailer Guile Hero Unusual Euphemism Does Not Like Shoes Demonic Possession Blackmail Beware the Nice Ones Improvised Weapon I Did What I Had to Do Mystery and Detective Films Dying Moment of Awesome Slasher Smile Foreshadowing Pre-Mortem One-Liner Whole Plot Reference BFG Christmas Movies Index Killed Mid-Sentence Plot Hole Red Herring Smoking Is Cool Epic Fail Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Combat Pragmatist Retirony Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Damsel in Distress Expository Hairstyle Change Attempted Rape Light Is Not Good Slap-Slap-Kiss Face–Heel Turn Death by Irony Eiffel Tower Effect Hope Spot As the Good Book Says... 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Deliberately Monochrome Adapted Out Wham Line Rule of Funny The Dreaded Naïve Newcomer Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Awesome, but Impractical Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bolivian Army Ending Line-of-Sight Name Mr. Fanservice The '60s Cloudcuckoolander Disproportionate Retribution Take a Third Option Demoted to Extra Gold Digger Reality Is Unrealistic Accidental Murder Soft Glass Chekhov's Gunman Left the Background Music On Intrepid Reporter Did Not Get the Girl Insult Backfire Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Manly Tears Reckless Gun Usage Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Arranged Marriage Intergenerational Friendship Woman Scorned Ambiguous Ending Gone Horribly Right Ominous Latin Chanting Spell My Name with an "S" Mr. Exposition Villain Song Distracted by the Sexy Darkest Hour All Men Are Perverts Creative Closing Credits Fish out of Water Television Movie Index Scary Black Man Comically Missing the Point Silent Movie Nice Guy Jerk with a Heart of Gold Dirty Coward Interrupted Suicide Big Brother Instinct Tagline The Smart Guy An Aesop Sci-Fi Horror Anachronic Order Humans Are Bastards Random Events Plot Curb-Stomp Battle My Beloved Smother Bavarian Fire Drill Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Rule of Cool Red Right Hand Country Matters Easily Forgiven Roaring Rampage of Revenge Broken Pedestal Documentary Wham Shot Deus ex Machina After the End Important Haircut Fourth Date Marriage Serial Killer As Himself Genre Shift The X of Y Brother–Sister Incest Crucified Hero Shot Bare Your Midriff Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Say My Name I'm a Humanitarian Lock and Load Montage Biopic There Is No Kill Like Overkill Overly Long Gag Sports Stories Death by Sex Playing Gertrude The Stinger The Alleged Car Blatant Lies Adaptational Badass The Alcoholic Drowning My Sorrows Aside Glance Fun with Acronyms Stealth Pun Horror Comedy Drives Like Crazy Animal Motifs Translation Convention Same Language Dub War Is Hell Beta Couple Bald of Evil Man on Fire Film Noir Index Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Smug Snake Camera Abuse Continuity Nod Red Oni, Blue Oni Rape as Drama The Sociopath Hoist by His Own Petard Cluster F-Bomb Adaptation Name Change Pimped-Out Dress Even Evil Has Standards Gratuitous English Animal Title Index Big Eater Dramedy Made of Iron Pretty Little Headshots Worthy Opponent The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Brainless Beauty Book-Ends MacGuffin The '70s Crazy Jealous Guy Animated Credits Opening Dogged Nice Guy Death Seeker Deconstruction Call-Forward Horror Films Early-Bird Cameo Cain and Abel Military and Warfare Films Totally Radical It's Personal Chewing the Scenery Villain Protagonist Deliberate Values Dissonance Get Out! Pet the Dog Composite Character Dull Surprise Only One Name Immune to Bullets Dark and Troubled Past Bullying a Dragon La Résistance Developing Doomed Characters Mad Scientist Butt-Monkey Overprotective Dad Not Quite Dead All There in the Manual Obstructive Bureaucrat Not What It Looks Like Take That! Maybe Ever After Death of a Child Unusually Uninteresting Sight Mythology Gag Reasonable Authority Figure Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Malevolent Masked Men "Well Done, Son!" Guy Knight Templar Taking the Bullet Mugging the Monster Villain Opening Scene Facial Horror Stuff Blowing Up Rewatch Bonus Leaning on the Fourth Wall Action Genre Historical In-Joke It Will Never Catch On Grievous Bottley Harm Badass Normal Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Index of Film Westerns Establishing Character Moment In Medias Res Vampire Fiction Improbable Weapon User Gilligan Cut Toplessness from the Back Only in It for the Money Bond Villain Stupidity Self-Deprecation And the Adventure Continues Defiant to the End Poor Communication Kills Canadian Movies Becoming the Mask Agony of the Feet Auto Erotica How We Got Here Novelization Cat Fight Covers Always Lie An Arm and a Leg Pragmatic Adaptation From Bad to Worse The Bully Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Disney Death Taking You with Me Author Appeal Evil vs. Evil Make It Look Like an Accident Plucky Comic Relief Unspoken Plan Guarantee Author Avatar Unreliable Narrator The Quiet One Affectionate Parody Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Oner Greater-Scope Villain Dramatic Irony Bittersweet Ending Bottomless Magazines Adults Are Useless