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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Slashed Throat The Mole Arc Words All Men Are Perverts Vomit Indiscretion Shot Calling the Old Man Out Your Head A-Splode Black and Gray Morality Up to Eleven Didn't Think This Through Diabolus ex Machina Final Girl Bloodier and Gorier All Girls Want Bad Boys Lock and Load Montage Getting Crap Past the Radar Homage Refuge in Audacity What You Are in the Dark And I Must Scream Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Deal with the Devil Only in It for the Money After the End Adaptational Attractiveness Psychopathic Manchild Cool Guns As Himself Almost Kiss Leitmotif Vomit Discretion Shot She Cleans Up Nicely Well-Intentioned Extremist Star-Crossed Lovers Japanese Films Deconstruction Film Noir Unwitting Instigator of Doom Riddle for the Ages Jitter Cam Evil Plan Vitriolic Best Buds Ms. Fanservice Gender Flip Left the Background Music On Ambiguous Ending Rich Bitch Fanservice Happily Married NO INDOOR VOICE Fatal Flaw Hypocritical Humor The Bully Evil Is Hammy Beard of Evil Obstructive Bureaucrat Shown Their Work Canon Foreigner Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Black Comedy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Not What It Looks Like Belligerent Sexual Tension Line-of-Sight Name Even Evil Has Loved Ones Freudian Excuse In Medias Res Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dirty Cop Shell-Shocked Veteran Cassandra Truth Bolivian Army Ending Reality Ensues Red Herring Curb-Stomp Battle Captain Ersatz The Starscream Greater-Scope Villain Guile Hero Worthy Opponent Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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For Want of a Nail Killed Mid-Sentence MacGuffin Storming the Castle Token Minority Historical-Domain Character Stealth Pun Sir Swears-a-Lot Double-Meaning Title Air-Vent Passageway Does Not Like Shoes Reasonable Authority Figure Maybe Ever After Deliberately Monochrome Corrupt Corporate Executive Hidden Depths Italian Films Dogged Nice Guy Pyrrhic Victory Recycled IN SPACE! Early Installment Weirdness All There in the Manual Dissonant Serenity Re-Cut As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Chessmaster One-Man Army Expository Hairstyle Change Arranged Marriage Make It Look Like an Accident Friend to All Children Advertised Extra War Is Hell Ambiguous Disorder Punny Name Famous Last Words Accidental Misnaming Car Fu Plot Hole Woman Scorned The Stoner Karma Houdini An Axe to Grind As You Know Despair Event Horizon Wrong Genre Savvy Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies One Steve Limit Gorn Dual Wielding BFG Mood Whiplash A Father to His Men Scenery Porn Genre Savvy Posthumous Character Man on Fire Mexican Standoff Ominous Latin Chanting Ghost Fiction Taking You with Me Those Wacky Nazis Auto Erotica Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Malevolent Masked Men Jerk with a Heart of Gold Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Is a Crapshoot Femme Fatale Exactly What It Says on the Tin Meaningful Background Event Your Cheating Heart Break the Cutie Overly Long Gag Drugs Are Bad Exact Words Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Never Trust a Trailer Index of Film Westerns Vampire Fiction Fake Shemp Never Found the Body Retired Badass Badass Grandpa There Is No Kill Like Overkill Spell My Name with an "S" Poor Communication Kills Romantic Comedy The Dreaded Bad Boss Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Jerk Jock Back from the Dead Took a Level in Jerkass Sexy Discretion Shot Our Vampires Are Different Foregone Conclusion Light Is Not Good Bloodless Carnage Spared by the Adaptation Insult Backfire Say My Name Broken Pedestal Epic Fail Reality Has No Subtitles B-Movie Camp Gay Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Chekhov's Skill Face–Heel Turn Darker and Edgier And the Adventure Continues Rewatch Bonus The '70s The Chick Bar Brawl Only Sane Man Action Girl Hooker with a Heart of Gold Drives Like Crazy German Films Danny Peary Cult Movies List Intergenerational Friendship Pay Evil unto Evil Jerkass Translation Convention Does This Remind You of Anything? 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