Tropescilloscope: Dirty Coward

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

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