Tropescilloscope: Drives Like Crazy

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

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