Tropescilloscope: Domestic Abuse

Forcefully controlling the significant other in a relationship, often by means of physical and/or verbal harm. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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