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)

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