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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Enemy Mine Names to Run Away from Really Fast "Awesome McCool" Name Unreliable Narrator Disappeared Dad Closed Circle Central Theme Demoted to Extra Freudian Excuse Fainting NO INDOOR VOICE Sealed Evil in a Can Friend to All Children Left the Background Music On Same Language Dub In the Back Pet the Dog The Un-Reveal Combat Pragmatist All There in the Script Jump Scare Drives Like Crazy Defiant to the End Danny Peary Cult Movies List Fantastic Racism Kubrick Stare Blackmail The Cameo Naïve Newcomer Pretty Little Headshots Break the Cutie Last-Name Basis Big Bad How We Got Here Flashback Tranquil Fury Big Damn Heroes Adaptational Heroism Suddenly SHOUTING! An Axe to Grind Big Fancy House Laser-Guided Karma BFG Lampshade Hanging Call-Back Yandere Happily Married Broken Aesop Big Brother Instinct Historical In-Joke Covers Always Lie Manly Tears Abusive Parents Gainax Ending Word of God Butt-Monkey There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Great Depression Bald of Evil Retired Badass Every Car Is a Pinto Adapted Out Bunny-Ears Lawyer Car Fu Motor Mouth Meet Cute Age Lift Big Applesauce Dark Reprise Disney Death Frame-Up Music Stories Male Frontal Nudity Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Big Guy Dark and Troubled Past Canadian Movies Big Bad Duumvirate He Knows Too Much And the Adventure Continues Throwing Your Sword Always Works Rape as Drama Epic Fail Take a Third Option Early-Bird Cameo Logo Joke The Power of Love "Shaggy Dog" Story Babies Ever After Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Humans Are Bastards Show Within a Show The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Accidental Murder Loads and Loads of Characters Victoria's Secret Compartment Together in Death "Well Done, Son!" Guy Fingore Wretched Hive Animal Motifs Hypocritical Humor Does Not Like Shoes Evil vs. Evil Drill Sergeant Nasty Ascended Extra Establishing Character Moment Never Found the Body Real Life Writes the Plot Action Prologue Big-Bad Ensemble In Name Only Our Zombies Are Different Parental Incest Deconstruction Gold Digger Film Noir Index The Smart Guy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Index of Film Westerns It's All About Me Monumental Damage More Dakka The Bad Guy Wins Plot Hole World of Ham Actor Allusion Disproportionate Retribution Naked People Are Funny Only Sane Man My God, What Have I Done? In Medias Res Mad Scientist Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Determinator Air-Vent Passageway I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Break the Haughty Anguished Declaration of Love Market-Based Title The Dragon Shipper on Deck Country Matters Double-Meaning Title Damsel in Distress MacGuffin Spiteful Spit Needs Wiki Magic Love Black Comedy Properly Paranoid Paper-Thin Disguise Madness Mantra Mind Screw Cool Guns Military and Warfare Films Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Place Brainless Beauty Canon Foreigner Unspoken Plan Guarantee Hate Sink Older Than They Look Funny Background Event Jerk Jock Off with His Head! 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Is Serious Business Foregone Conclusion Police are Useless Punch-Clock Villain Badass Longcoat Meaningful Name Anti-Hero The Voiceless Kick the Son of a Bitch Very Loosely Based on a True Story Eureka Moment Obfuscating Stupidity Men Are the Expendable Gender Boom, Headshot! Straight Gay Daddy's Girl Trailers Always Spoil Ms. Fanservice Dark Action Girl Death Seeker Reasonable Authority Figure The Ghost Villain Opening Scene Fat Bastard Knight Templar Exact Words Lighter and Softer Riddle for the Ages Ripped from the Headlines Gorn Twist Ending Adaptation Distillation Brutal Honesty Rule of Three Drowning My Sorrows Really Gets Around Running Gag Novelization Arch-Enemy Wicked Cultured Training Montage The Brute Precision F-Strike Nothing Is Scarier Spell My Name with an "S" Made of Iron Horror Comedy Fan Disservice Badass Grandpa Villain with Good Publicity Cool Car All for Nothing Fatal Flaw Card-Carrying Villain Take That! Evil Counterpart Biopic Ungrateful Bastard Idiot Ball Light Is Not Good Black and Gray Morality Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Video Credits Protagonist Title Bare Your Midriff Knife Nut You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Red Eyes, Take Warning Call-Forward The Vamp Cluster F-Bomb Advertised Extra Artistic License – Military Domestic Abuse Crapsack World Gratuitous English Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Manipulative Bastard Defrosting Ice Queen She Cleans Up Nicely Expository Hairstyle Change Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Musical Getting Crap Past the Radar Fatal Family Photo Redemption Equals Death Extremely Short Timespan Dark Is Not Evil Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Artistic License – Geography Death by Adaptation Slasher Smile Cruel and Unusual Death Papa Wolf Actually Pretty Funny Mercy Kill Bloodier and Gorier Non-Indicative Name Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Shoot the Shaggy Dog True Companions Took a Level in Badass The Film of the Book Antagonist Title Kill It with Fire Vomit Discretion Shot Major Injury Underreaction Depraved Bisexual Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Book-Ends Gender Flip Hero Antagonist Fourth Date Marriage Dramatic Irony Groin Attack Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Stoic Translation Convention Ghost Fiction Fake Shemp Handicapped Badass Gory Discretion Shot Rule of Cool Rousing Speech Hell Is That Noise Oh, Crap! 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Is a Crapshoot My Beloved Smother Dirty Coward Instant Death Bullet Scenery Gorn Darker and Edgier Adaptational Attractiveness folderlabel Evil Is Petty Bring My Brown Pants Stealth Pun Character Development Authority Equals Asskicking Action Survivor Shower Scene Adult Fear An Arm and a Leg Have a Gay Old Time Only One Name Earn Your Happy Ending Jitter Cam The Starscream Black Best Friend This Is Gonna Suck Five-Man Band Obviously Evil Worthy Opponent Up to Eleven Affectionate Parody Dutch Angle Fantasy Films Evil Sounds Deep Insult Backfire Mexican Standoff Meaningful Echo Russian Films Leave the Camera Running Demonic Possession Determinator aka: The Determinator Ambiguous Ending As Long as It Sounds Foreign Intergenerational Friendship Romantic Comedy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Hero Dies Evil Laugh Match Cut What the Hell, Hero? Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Funny Foreigner Adaptation Expansion Line-of-Sight Name Agony of the Feet The Ditz Bavarian Fire Drill She's Got Legs Action Genre Implacable Man The '60s Those Two Bad Guys Not What It Looks Like Reckless Gun Usage Token Minority Body Horror Bond Villain Stupidity Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Those Wacky Nazis Artistic License – History I Did What I Had to Do Sequel Escalation All Men Are Perverts An Aesop Setting Update Sinister Minister Curse Cut Short Bury Your Gays Vacation Films Re-Cut Not Quite Dead Blood Knight Christmas Movies Index Femme Fatale Intrepid Reporter Facial Horror Shell-Shocked Veteran Affably Evil Historical Villain Upgrade May–December Romance Based on a True Story Apocalypse How Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Maybe Ever After Took a Level in Jerkass Well-Intentioned Extremist Manchild I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Jerk with a Heart of Gold One-Man Army Super Strength Expy Credits Gag Overprotective Dad '80s Hair Evil Plan The Hero Creative Closing Credits Heroes Want Redheads Captain Ersatz Our Vampires Are Different Corrupt Corporate Executive Artistic License – Physics Artistic License – Law Berserk Button Failed a Spot Check Bait-and-Switch The Stinger Would Hurt a Child Gilligan Cut Dual Wielding Darkest Hour Broken Bird Stock Footage Even Evil Has Loved Ones Put on a Bus Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil What You Are in the Dark The '90s The Load Jerkass Has a Point Blatant Lies Nice Hat Casting Gag Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping It Will Never Catch On Jerkass Dropped a Bridge on Him Dramedy From Bad to Worse The Sociopath