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