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