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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Five-Man Band Adults Are Useless Fiery Redhead Victoria's Secret Compartment No OSHA Compliance Crucified Hero Shot Affectionate Parody Not Using the "Z" Word Shirtless Scene 20 Minutes into the Future Karmic Death Badass Boast Facial Horror Jerkass The Lancer Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dramedy Foregone Conclusion Hollywood Law Drowning My Sorrows Accidental Murder Laser-Guided Karma World of Ham Real Life Writes the Plot Genre Shift Gone Horribly Right Destination Defenestration All There in the Manual Femme Fatale Works Set in World War II Anti-Villain Dwindling Party Protagonist Title Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Better to Die than Be Killed From Bad to Worse Red Eyes, Take Warning The Un-Reveal Same Language Dub Sequel Escalation Nice Guy Rule of Symbolism Curse Cut Short Black Comedy Rape Empathic Environment Bring My Brown Pants The '70s The Quiet One The Reveal Handicapped Badass Attempted Rape Recycled IN SPACE! What You Are in the Dark Bad "Bad Acting" Vampire Fiction Historical In-Joke I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Drugs Are Bad Would Hit a Girl Heroic BSoD Call-Back Narrator Aluminum Christmas Trees Match Cut Unresolved Sexual Tension Central Theme Film Series Adapted Out And Starring Does This Remind You of Anything? Sports Stories Sequel Hook Truth in Television Left the Background Music On Smug Snake Fish out of Water Brutal Honesty Card-Carrying Villain Artistic License – History Expy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Outrun the Fireball The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite It's Personal A Date with Rosie Palms Extreme Doormat Creepy Child Evil Counterpart Eiffel Tower Effect Punny Name The Casanova Slasher Movie Cool Shades Four-Temperament Ensemble Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Badass Bookworm Beta Couple Let's Get Dangerous! Men Are the Expendable Gender Gainax Ending Animal Motifs The Bully Easily Forgiven Jitter Cam Daylight Horror Overprotective Dad Time Skip Retirony Large Ham Took a Level in Badass Mundane Made Awesome Self-Deprecation Rasputinian Death Ambiguous Disorder Crazy-Prepared Bolivian Army Ending Black Comedy Ungrateful Bastard Genre Savvy Guns Akimbo Real Life Meaningful Name Demoted to Extra Cluster F-Bomb Fanservice Storming the Castle From Nobody to Nightmare The Faceless Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Dirty Cop Jerkass Has a Point Auto Erotica No-Sell Abusive Parents The Stoic Neck Lift Mythology Gag Adorkable Artistic License – Gun Safety Big Eater The Sociopath Canon Foreigner Badass Normal Fatal Family Photo Agony of the Feet Training Montage Mystery and Detective Films Documentary Meaningful Background Event Love at First Sight Annoying Younger Sibling Early-Bird Cameo Butt-Monkey Cain and Abel Wicked Cultured Knife Nut Maybe Ever After Eye Scream Stock Footage An Arm and a Leg I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Accidental Misnaming Domestic Abuse Have a Gay Old Time Mooks My Beloved Smother Sadistic Choice Gorn Hoist by His Own Petard Undying Loyalty Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Big Guy The Mole Laughing Mad And I Must Scream Jerk with a Heart of Gold Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Pretty in Mink Defrosting Ice Queen Adaptational Heroism Kubrick Stare Cat Fight Parental Neglect Posthumous Character The Chick Even Evil Has Loved Ones Happily Married Heel–Face Turn Damsel in Distress Funny Background Event Character Development Leitmotif Serious Business Thriller Improvised Weapon Diabolus ex Machina Meet Cute MacGuffin Good Is Not Nice No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Yandere Ripped from the Headlines Shower Scene Deus ex Machina Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bilingual Bonus Martial Arts Movie You Have Failed Me Obstructive Bureaucrat Badass in a Nice Suit Bloody Hilarious Public Domain Feature Films Face Death with Dignity Bound and Gagged Department of Redundancy Department Author Appeal Noodle Incident Eagleland Redshirt Army Cowboy Cop My God, What Have I Done? Chekhov's Gunman Ship Tease Calling the Old Man Out Setting Update The Vamp Once More, with Clarity! 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Extremely Short Timespan Camera Abuse Implacable Man Hypocritical Humor It Will Never Catch On Enemy Mine Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Amusing Injuries Mercy Kill Anachronic Order Fantasy Films Police Brutality Scenery Gorn Line-of-Sight Name Rule of Three Batman Gambit Sacrificial Lion Zombie Stories Eureka Moment Properly Paranoid I Need a Freaking Drink Motor Mouth Evil Laugh As Long as It Sounds Foreign Rich Bitch Mistaken for Gay Soft Glass Evil Plan Light Is Not Good Henpecked Husband Rated M for Manly The Hero Dies Fan Disservice Disney Villain Death Television Movie Index Aside Glance Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Kill 'em All '80s Hair Blood Knight Almost Kiss Taking the Bullet The Cameo Camp Gay Refuge in Audacity Superhero Bullying a Dragon Chiaroscuro The Voiceless Adaptation Name Change All Girls Want Bad Boys The Mafia Rule of Funny Ironic Echo Woman in White I Have Your Wife Spanner in the Works Not Even Bothering with the Accent Belligerent Sexual Tension Bury Your Gays Only One Name Babies Ever After Cat Scare Freeze-Frame Bonus Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Artistic License – Geography Cassandra Truth Credits Gag Police are Useless Costume Porn The Stinger Adaptational Attractiveness Cool Old Guy The Hero Naïve Newcomer Hidden Depths Red Right Hand Adaptation Distillation Crapsack World Cloudcuckoolander The Alcoholic Psychopathic Manchild Suspiciously Specific Denial German Films Faux Affably Evil Exactly What It Says on the Tin Up to Eleven Eyepatch of Power Made of Iron Say My Name Celebrity Paradox Pet the Dog Flashback More Dakka Manly Tears Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Mexican Standoff Manic Pixie Dream Girl Madness Mantra Humiliation Conga Blackmail Stalker with a Crush Disproportionate Retribution Badass Grandpa Stealth Pun Christmas Movies Index Dirty Coward Pre-Mortem One-Liner Really Gets Around Vitriolic Best Buds Earn Your Happy Ending War Is Hell Depraved Bisexual Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Bloodier and Gorier Insistent Terminology Taking You with Me Bi the Way One-Man Army The Chessmaster Deadpan Snarker Well-Intentioned Extremist Not So Different Fun with Acronyms Brother–Sister Incest folderlabel Tempting Fate Gilligan Cut Historical Villain Upgrade Double Entendre Unreliable Narrator Bare Your Midriff Evil-Detecting Dog All There in the Script Action Girl No Antagonist Bloodless Carnage Reality Ensues Ominous Latin Chanting Guile Hero Interrupted Suicide Logo Joke Spared by the Adaptation Dogged Nice Guy Fatal Flaw Those Two Bad Guys Pragmatic Villainy Downer Ending Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dramatic Gun Cock Nice Hat Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Not So Stoic Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Male Frontal Nudity Neck Snap Red Oni, Blue Oni May–December Romance Scenery Porn Cold-Blooded Torture Shout-Out Award-Bait Song Room Full of Crazy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Shut Up, Hannibal! Everyone Has Standards Death by Sex Hell Is That Noise Silence Is Golden Arranged Marriage And the Adventure Continues The Stoner Dirty Old Man Off-into-the-Distance Ending Your Head A-Splode Hope Spot The Ghost Race Lift BFG Shipper on Deck Token Minority Black Dude Dies First The Film of the Book The Brute Bland-Name Product It Can Think Contrived Coincidence Blood from the Mouth Offscreen Moment of Awesome In Medias Res Establishing Character Moment Dying Moment of Awesome Red Herring B-Movie Half the Man He Used to Be Dark and Troubled Past Visual Pun Ambiguously Gay The Great Depression Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Big Damn Heroes Sci-Fi Horror Betty and Veronica Whole Plot Reference A Minor Kidroduction A God Am I Becoming the Mask Plot Hole Beware the Nice Ones Took a Level in Jerkass Big "NO!" Dumb Blonde Immune to Bullets Oh, Crap! 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It's All About Me Brick Joke Dark Is Not Evil Idiot Ball Coming-of-Age Story Call-Forward No Celebrities Were Harmed Due to the Dead Abhorrent Admirer In the Back The Ace The Dragon Chase Scene Bavarian Fire Drill Rousing Speech Moment Killer I Did What I Had to Do Big Bad Duumvirate He Knows Too Much Dutch Angle Novelization Beard of Evil Intergenerational Friendship The Ditz The Remake Fingore "Shaggy Dog" Story Break the Haughty Epic Movie Kill It with Fire She Cleans Up Nicely Reasonable Authority Figure Cool Guns Dressing as the Enemy Lock and Load Montage Leaning on the Fourth Wall Body Horror Drill Sergeant Nasty Hong Kong Films Informed Ability Fate Worse than Death Gender Flip In Name Only Adaptational Villainy As You Know Non-Indicative Name Deal with the Devil Distracted by the Sexy Suddenly SHOUTING! Sanity Slippage Older Than They Look Irony Horror Films Villain Song Fainting Pyrrhic Victory Psycho for Hire Tagline Pragmatic Adaptation Knight Templar Vacation Films The Cavalry Not What It Looks Like True Companions Pimped-Out Dress Military and Warfare Films Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Comically Missing the Point Mind Screw Developing Doomed Characters Our Zombies Are Different Lighter and Softer Badass Longcoat Take a Third Option Bald of Evil Antagonist Title Evil Brit Needs Wiki Magic Love Rape as Drama Small Name, Big Ego The '90s All for Nothing The Lost Lenore Historical Hero Upgrade Italian Films As the Good Book Says... Too Dumb to Live Random Events Plot Disney Death The Dog Bites Back There Is No Kill Like Overkill Psychological Thriller Cool Car Pretty Little Headshots Villainous Breakdown Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sassy Black Woman Put on a Bus Retcon Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Atoner Homage Instant Death Bullet Wham Line Parental Abandonment Covers Always Lie Creative Closing Credits Here We Go Again! Would Hurt a Child Meaningful Echo Spiritual Successor Mad Scientist Fanservice Extra British Films Arc Words Break the Cutie Missing Mom Dull Surprise Big Fancy House For the Evulz Adaptation Expansion Authority Equals Asskicking Very Loosely Based on a True Story Ass Shove Not So Above It All Anguished Declaration of Love Scary Black Man All Men Are Perverts Advertised Extra Male Gaze Historical-Domain Character Pay Evil unto Evil You Killed My Father All Just a Dream Poor Communication Kills No Ending Crazy Jealous Guy Only Sane Man Green-Eyed Monster Does Not Like Shoes Roaring Rampage of Revenge Captain Ersatz Vomit Indiscretion Shot The '60s Redemption Equals Death Adaptation Dye-Job Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Slashed Throat Manipulative Bastard Disguised in Drag Mama Bear Ambiguous Ending timeperiod Parental Incest "The Reason You Suck" Speech Mr. Fanservice Important Haircut Expository Hairstyle Change Revenge Black Best Friend Those Wacky Nazis Flipping the Bird Translation Convention Gratuitous English Russian Films Make It Look Like an Accident My Greatest Failure Skewed Priorities Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds No Name Given Big Brother Instinct Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Market-Based Title La Résistance Stylistic Suck Death by Irony Heroic Sacrifice Married to the Job The Power of Love Death Seeker Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Ax-Crazy Malevolent Masked Men Creator Cameo Mighty Whitey Composite Character Anti-Hero Kids Are Cruel As Himself Dramatic Irony Cruel and Unusual Death Intrepid Reporter Hero of Another Story Foil Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Combat Pragmatist Nothing Is Scarier Overly Long Gag Stealth Hi/Bye Race Against the Clock Dual Wielding Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Riddle for the Ages Sexy Discretion Shot Slasher Smile Video Credits Sealed Evil in a Can Last-Name Basis Improbable Weapon User Wrong Genre Savvy Artistic License – Biology