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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Bond Villain Stupidity Red Oni, Blue Oni Taking You with Me Hero of Another Story The Mafia Leave the Camera Running Evil Is Hammy Shower Scene Manipulative Bastard There Is No Kill Like Overkill Gratuitous English Earn Your Happy Ending Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? It Can Think Black Comedy Rape Babies Ever After Riddle for the Ages Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sexy Discretion Shot N-Word Privileges Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Fish out of Water Toplessness from the Back Anyone Can Die Belligerent Sexual Tension Evil Brit Novelization Mooks Crazy-Prepared Historical In-Joke Getting Crap Past the Radar Jitter Cam Canon Foreigner Framing Device Visual Pun Mystery and Detective Films Humans Are Bastards Creative Closing Credits Unreliable Narrator Fat Bastard In Name Only Defrosting Ice Queen Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Freeze-Frame Bonus You Have Failed Me Manic Pixie Dream Girl Demonic Possession Face–Heel Turn Race Lift Intergenerational Friendship Sealed Evil in a Can Naked People Are Funny Curse Cut Short Heterosexual Life-Partners Adult Fear Darkest Hour Comically Missing the Point Reality Has No Subtitles Brutal Honesty Betty and Veronica timeperiod Spell My Name with an "S" Trailers Always Spoil An Axe to Grind Loophole Abuse Continuity Nod Throwing Your Sword Always Works Refuge in Audacity Ass Shove The Film of the Book Genre Savvy Bloodier and Gorier Coming-of-Age Story Camp Gay Authority Equals Asskicking The Ace The '60s Not Quite Dead Disney Villain Death Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Double-Meaning Title Downer Ending Fainting Sir Swears-a-Lot Parental Substitute Public Domain Feature Films What the Hell, Hero? Children Are Innocent Developing Doomed Characters What Happened to the Mouse? Dark Action Girl Fake Shemp Danny Peary Cult Movies List Eyepatch of Power Curb-Stomp Battle He Who Fights Monsters Fatal Family Photo The '80s The Reveal Only a Flesh Wound Product Placement No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Parental Abandonment Match Cut Driven to Suicide Vomit Indiscretion Shot Death by Irony Dark Reprise Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Accidental Murder Retcon '80s Hair Bloodless Carnage Rule of Symbolism Adaptational Villainy Cat Scare The Bully Film Noir Index Dogged Nice Guy Idiot Ball Silent Movie Catapult Nightmare Plucky Comic Relief Gender Flip Cowboy Cop Precision F-Strike Room Full of Crazy The Dragon Missing Mom Parental Incest Sole Survivor Adaptational Heroism Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Jerk with a Heart of Gold Tap on the Head Insult Backfire Nothing Is Scarier Revenge Playing Gertrude Eldritch Abomination Last-Name Basis The Vamp Bittersweet Ending Brainless Beauty Dirty Cop Famous Last Words Ungrateful Bastard Slap-Slap-Kiss Rule of Three Spiritual Successor Aluminum Christmas Trees Scenery Gorn Cluster F-Bomb Darker and Edgier Those Wacky Nazis Bar Brawl Not So Different Here We Go Again! Ominous Latin Chanting Villain Protagonist Evil Is Petty Big-Bad Ensemble Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Be Careful What You Wish For This Is Gonna Suck What You Are in the Dark Madness Mantra Rape as Drama Twist Ending Our Vampires Are Different Funny Foreigner Big Damn Heroes Affectionate Parody May–December Romance Mundane Made Awesome Suddenly SHOUTING! Took a Level in Badass The Stinger Deconstruction Slasher Smile Documentary Batman Gambit Meaningful Echo Crapsack World Henpecked Husband Almost Kiss Overprotective Dad Despair Event Horizon Made of Explodium The Dreaded Up to Eleven Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Bad Boss Moment Killer Karmic Death Would Hit a Girl Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Lock and Load Montage Bury Your Gays "Well Done, Son!" Guy Amoral Attorney Dying Moment of Awesome Vitriolic Best Buds Male Frontal Nudity Extreme Doormat Dirty Coward Anti-Hero Dull Surprise Chekhov's Gun O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dark and Troubled Past Stealth Hi/Bye Irony Retired Badass All Girls Want Bad Boys Death Seeker The X of Y Imagine Spot The Hero Dies "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Brute Get Out! Killed Mid-Sentence Flashback Bond One-Liner Spiteful Spit Bare Your Midriff Artistic License – Law Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Voiceless Country Matters Brick Joke Chekhov's Gunman Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Australian Movies Mama Bear Aside Glance NO INDOOR VOICE Soft Glass Abusive Parents All There in the Script Poor Communication Kills Deadpan Snarker Lampshade Hanging Arch-Enemy Adapted Out Pretty Little Headshots Your Cheating Heart Slashed Throat Celebrity Paradox Attempted Rape Central Theme Mythology Gag Alliterative Name Jump Scare Well-Intentioned Extremist Wham Shot Line-of-Sight Name Hong Kong Films Fatal Flaw Blonde, Brunette, Redhead As Long as It Sounds Foreign Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Does This Remind You of Anything? The Smart Guy Red Eyes, Take Warning Neck Lift Corrupt Corporate Executive Video Credits The '90s Put on a Bus Crucified Hero Shot folderlabel The Faceless Adaptational Attractiveness War Is Hell One Steve Limit All Men Are Perverts Serious Business Suspiciously Similar Substitute Only Known by Their Nickname Canadian Movies Your Head A-Splode Defiant to the End Man on Fire Ripped from the Headlines Overly Long Gag Beta Couple Ax-Crazy The Ghost The Alleged Car Fantasy Films Shirtless Scene One-Word Title Ship Tease Older Than They Look Silence Is Golden Tranquil Fury Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Brother–Sister Incest It's Personal No Celebrities Were Harmed Ambiguous Ending Bound and Gagged Butt-Monkey Ragtag Bunch of Misfits "Shaggy Dog" Story Death by Sex Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Plot Hole The Stoic Scenery Porn Adaptational Badass Animated Credits Opening An Arm and a Leg Vacation Films Naïve Newcomer Advertised Extra The Alcoholic Double Entendre Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Smurfette Principle Chekhov's Skill Not So Stoic Obstructive Bureaucrat Fun with Acronyms Mexican Standoff The Cameo The Un-Reveal Very Loosely Based on a True Story Unusual Euphemism Skewed Priorities Translation Convention Distracted by the Sexy An Aesop World of Ham Setting Update Evil Plan Black Best Friend Adults Are Useless The End... Or Is It? Action Girl Unwitting Instigator of Doom Properly Paranoid German Films Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking She Cleans Up Nicely Reasonable Authority Figure The Hero Adaptation Name Change Groin Attack Not So Above It All Instant Death Bullet Beard of Evil Narrator Actor Allusion Motor Mouth Death by Adaptation Body Horror My Beloved Smother I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Russian Films Paper-Thin Disguise Black and Gray Morality It's All About Me Gorn Everyone Has Standards Faux Affably Evil Villain with Good Publicity Hell Is That Noise Card-Carrying Villain Heel Realization Drowning My Sorrows Costume Porn Award-Bait Song Historical Hero Upgrade One-Man Army Genre Shift Fate Worse than Death Needs Wiki Magic Love Knife Nut Covers Always Lie Drugs Are Bad Police are Useless Badass Normal Beware the Nice Ones The Place He Knows Too Much Artistic License – Biology Undying Loyalty Better to Die than Be Killed Arc Words Yandere Adaptation Expansion Department of Redundancy Department No Ending Storming the Castle Antagonist Title Evil vs. Evil Sinister Minister Annoying Younger Sibling Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Extremely Short Timespan Greater-Scope Villain Creator Cameo In the Back Mind Screw Once More, with Clarity! A God Am I Mood Whiplash Make It Look Like an Accident Loads and Loads of Characters Smoking Is Cool Hooker with a Heart of Gold Karma Houdini No-Sell Chase Scene Due to the Dead Real Life Blackmail Obfuscating Stupidity Hate Sink Horror Comedy Evil-Detecting Dog Character Development Dies Wide Open The Sociopath Heroic Sacrifice Knight Templar Italian Films Pragmatic Villainy As Himself Foil Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Christmas Movies Index Noodle Incident The Lost Lenore Leitmotif It Will Never Catch On Straight Gay Psycho for Hire Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Book-Ends Stock Footage The Ditz Chewing the Scenery You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Adorkable Shut Up, Hannibal! Works Set in World War II Thriller Pragmatic Adaptation I Have Your Wife Mr. Fanservice Hidden Depths The Chick You Killed My Father Armor-Piercing Question Ms. Fanservice Fingore Action Survivor Red Shirt Time Skip Badass Grandpa Ambiguously Gay From Bad to Worse Pyrrhic Victory Bullying a Dragon Ironic Echo Meet Cute Artistic License – Gun Safety Dramatic Gun Cock Kill It with Fire Smug Snake Men Are the Expendable Gender Friend to All Children All for Nothing "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Ascended Extra The Lancer Camera Abuse True Companions Suspiciously Specific Denial Contrived Coincidence Insane Troll Logic Wounded Gazelle Gambit Meaningful Name Offscreen Moment of Awesome Deal with the Devil Berserk Button Conspicuous CG Pet the Dog Funny Background Event Film Noir Gone Horribly Right Scare Chord Spared by the Adaptation Woman in White Villain Song Exact Words Obviously Evil Bi the Way Superhero Reality Is Unrealistic Those Two Guys Laughing Mad Air-Vent Passageway Failed a Spot Check Rousing Speech Early Installment Weirdness Facial Horror Hypocrite Creepy Child Captain Obvious A.I. Is a Crapshoot Five-Man Band Red Right Hand Big Fancy House Oh, Crap! 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Romantic False Lead British Films As You Know In Medias Res My Greatest Failure Kids Are Cruel Shell-Shocked Veteran The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Disproportionate Retribution Destination Defenestration Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Calling the Old Man Out Flipping the Bird Not Using the "Z" Word Punch-Clock Villain Manchild Romantic Comedy Reckless Gun Usage Unspoken Plan Guarantee Shipper on Deck Epic Fail Badass in a Nice Suit Amusing Injuries Artistic License – Physics Captain Ersatz Kubrick Stare Dwindling Party Epic Movie No Antagonist Peek-a-Boo Corpse Bait-and-Switch I'm a Humanitarian Off with His Head! Call-Back Big Brother Instinct Vomit Discretion Shot Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy She's Got Legs The Atoner Recycled IN SPACE! Cool Old Lady Love Triangle The Bad Guy Wins Happily Married Kick the Son of a Bitch Made of Iron Improbable Weapon User Sacrificial Lion Bottomless Magazines Cool Shades Rasputinian Death Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Stylistic Suck Never Found the Body Mistaken for Gay Alas, Poor Villain Totally Radical Dramedy Becoming the Mask Mighty Whitey Blatant Lies Spanner in the Works Empathic Environment Stuff Blowing Up Take a Third Option Genre Throwback Big Bad Duumvirate Eiffel Tower Effect The Stoner Nice Guy French Films Honor Before Reason Hollywood Darkness Star-Crossed Lovers Sequel Hook Villain Ball Married to the Job The Big Guy Deus ex Machina Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Determinator Posthumous Character The Casanova Eureka Moment Foregone Conclusion A Father to His Men Asshole Victim Dropped a Bridge on Him Big Bad Have a Gay Old Time Maybe Ever After Didn't Think This Through Green-Eyed Monster Badass Boast Pre-Asskicking One-Liner As the Good Book Says... Adaptation Distillation Villain Opening Scene Really Gets Around Call-Forward Fanservice Immune to Bullets Broken Aesop Cool Old Guy Broken Pedestal For the Evulz Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Tempting Fate Dirty Old Man All Just a Dream Jerkass Malevolent Masked Men Big Applesauce Mercy Kill You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hope Spot For Want of a Nail Wretched Hive Let's Get Dangerous! Laser-Guided Karma Wicked Cultured Disguised in Drag Actually Pretty Funny Sanity Slippage Scary Black Man Even Evil Has Standards Easily Forgiven Fiery Redhead Cold-Blooded Torture From Nobody to Nightmare Shout-Out Politically Incorrect Villain Heroes Want Redheads A Minor Kidroduction BFG Guns Akimbo Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Power of Love Rated M for Manly Boom, Headshot! Anti-Villain Important Haircut Deliberate Values Dissonance And Starring Reality Ensues My God, What Have I Done? Sequel Escalation I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The '70s Hoist by His Own Petard Did Not Get the Girl Author Avatar Drill Sergeant Nasty Faking the Dead Title Drop Half the Man He Used to Be Disney Death Rule of Cool Names to Run Away from Really Fast