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