Tropescilloscope: Drives Like Crazy

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

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Lighter and Softer Amusing Injuries Diabolus ex Machina Protagonist Title Continuity Nod The Faceless The Smurfette Principle Award-Bait Song Rewatch Bonus Totally Radical Parental Abandonment For Want of a Nail Red Oni, Blue Oni War Is Hell Paper-Thin Disguise Disney Villain Death Double-Meaning Title Back from the Dead Random Events Plot Left the Background Music On Bond One-Liner Off-into-the-Distance Ending Toplessness from the Back Dwindling Party Dramatic Irony Bilingual Bonus Only in It for the Money Sexy Discretion Shot Becoming the Mask Dramedy Captain Obvious Animated Credits Opening Malevolent Masked Men Bolivian Army Ending And I Must Scream Loads and Loads of Characters More Dakka Spiritual Successor Time Skip Romantic False Lead Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dark Reprise Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Mafia Dark and Troubled Past The Voiceless Faux Affably Evil Humans Are Bastards Chekhov's Gun Gone Horribly Right Taking the Bullet Police are Useless Children Are Innocent The Chessmaster Death by Sex Ascended Extra No Name Given Improvised Weapon Karmic Death Covers Always Lie Gory Discretion Shot Show Within a Show Awesome, but Impractical Fish out of Water Rich Bitch Hypocritical Humor I Have Your Wife Cat Scare Poor Communication Kills Line-of-Sight Name Blood Knight Slashed Throat Parental Neglect Woman in White Loophole Abuse Vampire Fiction And the Adventure Continues He Who Fights Monsters The Musical Comically Missing the Point The Ghost Half the Man He Used to Be The Smart Guy Death by Irony The Dragon Psychopathic Manchild Hidden Depths No Ending "Shaggy Dog" Story Novelization Suspiciously Similar Substitute Downer Ending Adaptational Heroism Badass Boast Rape as Drama Psychological Thriller She's Got Legs Scenery Gorn Badass Bookworm Tranquil Fury Video Credits Wham Line Cool Old Guy Knife Nut Our Vampires Are Different Homage Fatal Flaw Evil Is Hammy Dutch Angle Kick the Dog Blackmail Improbable Aiming Skills Kick the Son of a Bitch Deliberately Monochrome Catch-Phrase Darker and Edgier Villain Protagonist Put on a Bus A Minor Kidroduction Apocalypse How Take That! 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Stepford Smiler Contrived Coincidence Retired Badass Defrosting Ice Queen From Nobody to Nightmare I Need a Freaking Drink Dumb Blonde In the Back Fainting Black Best Friend Badass in a Nice Suit Truth in Television Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Wounded Gazelle Gambit Pretty in Mink Up to Eleven Ironic Echo Pretty Little Headshots Older Than They Look Last-Name Basis Real Life Drugs Are Bad Naïve Newcomer Domestic Abuse Foreshadowing Artistic License – Physics Shirtless Scene Worthy Opponent Brutal Honesty German Films Big-Bad Ensemble Overly Long Gag Breaking the Fourth Wall One-Word Title Chase Scene Pre-Mortem One-Liner Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Fat Bastard It's All About Me Artistic License – Law Leitmotif Large Ham Killed Mid-Sentence Antagonist Title Earn Your Happy Ending Body Horror Not So Stoic Canon Foreigner Evil Brit Slap-Slap-Kiss Determinator aka: The Determinator Married to the Job Parental Substitute Big Eater Smoking Is Cool Meet Cute Creepy Child Eiffel Tower Effect Dirty Cop The Load Advertised Extra Extreme Doormat Love Triangle Crapsack World Laughing Mad The Dreaded Precision F-Strike Fanservice Rule of Symbolism Cruel and Unusual Death Those Two Guys Mythology Gag Deconstruction Kill It with Fire Hero Antagonist Accidental Misnaming Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Straight Gay Fire-Forged Friends Word of God Handicapped Badass Kids Are Cruel Nothing Is Scarier Double Entendre All Girls Want Bad Boys Mooks Male Frontal Nudity Alas, Poor Villain Serious Business Papa Wolf Let's Get Dangerous! Laser-Guided Karma Wicked Cultured What Happened to the Mouse? 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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Implacable Man Beware the Nice Ones Pay Evil unto Evil Mighty Whitey Disappeared Dad Reasonable Authority Figure Corrupt Corporate Executive Adaptation Expansion Better to Die than Be Killed An Axe to Grind Mistaken for Gay May–December Romance Anachronism Stew Really Gets Around Fun with Acronyms Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Chick Agony of the Feet Reality Has No Subtitles Retcon Fan Disservice Manly Tears Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Faking the Dead Plot Hole Air-Vent Passageway It Can Think Dies Wide Open Translation Convention And Starring Moment Killer Evil Is Petty Bi the Way Hero of Another Story Race Against the Clock Scenery Porn Action Survivor Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bunny-Ears Lawyer Horror Comedy Adaptation Name Change Genre Throwback Frame-Up Rule of Three Epic Movie Revenge Yandere Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fiery Redhead Auto Erotica Adaptational Badass Gold Digger Roaring Rampage of Revenge Break the Cutie Bad "Bad Acting" A Father to His Men Well-Intentioned Extremist An Arm and a Leg The Vamp Evil Counterpart "Well Done, Son!" Guy Foregone Conclusion As Long as It Sounds Foreign Betty and Veronica Super Strength Reckless Gun Usage Artistic License – Biology Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Heroes Want Redheads Crazy-Prepared Meaningful Echo Setting Update Anachronic Order Cool Guns Hong Kong Films Obfuscating Stupidity Ghost Fiction One-Man Army Action Genre Say My Name Unusually Uninteresting Sight As the Good Book Says... Take a Third Option Did Not Get the Girl Storming the Castle Chekhov's Gunman Bloodless Carnage folderlabel Danny Peary Cult Movies List Big Bad Duumvirate Wrong Genre Savvy Failed a Spot Check Bad Boss Call-Forward Tap on the Head Serial Killer Retirony Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Genre Shift Disproportionate Retribution Stock Footage Politically Incorrect Villain Guile Hero Sanity Slippage Heterosexual Life-Partners Greater-Scope Villain I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Unwitting Instigator of Doom Big Applesauce Heel–Face Turn Fanservice Extra Unreliable Narrator All for Nothing Anti-Hero The Ditz Decoy Protagonist Calling the Old Man Out No OSHA Compliance Get Out! Batman Gambit Mr. Exposition Does Not Like Shoes Spanner in the Works Pyrrhic Victory Scare Chord I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bring My Brown Pants Arch-Enemy Dual Wielding True Companions Never My Fault Enemy Mine The '50s Off with His Head! 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Villain Opening Scene Adaptation Distillation