Tropescilloscope: Drives Like Crazy

Crazy person takes the wheel. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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