Tropescilloscope: Dirty Coward

Selfishly flees at the first sign of danger, usually at the expense of others. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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