Tropescilloscope: Disproportionate Retribution

Punishment over petty offenses. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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