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