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