Tropescilloscope: Drives Like Crazy

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

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Shell-Shocked Veteran Dark Reprise Pet the Dog Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Disney Death Small Name, Big Ego And the Adventure Continues Parental Neglect folderlabel Oh, Crap! Honor Before Reason Expository Hairstyle Change He Knows Too Much Everyone Has Standards Gender Flip Children Are Innocent Gory Discretion Shot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Central Theme Big Damn Heroes Adaptational Villainy "Shaggy Dog" Story Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Smurfette Principle Heroic Sacrifice Hoist by His Own Petard Psycho for Hire Meaningful Name The Vamp Early-Bird Cameo Arc Words Worthy Opponent Redemption Equals Death Sexy Discretion Shot For Want of a Nail O.O.C. Is Serious Business You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Dragon No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dull Surprise Sequel Escalation An Aesop Intrepid Reporter Music Stories Neck Lift Fish out of Water Coming-of-Age Story Big Bad Bloody Hilarious Nice Hat Aluminum Christmas Trees Shower Scene Five-Man Band Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Humans Are Bastards Leitmotif Australian Movies Villain Opening Scene The Oner Bad "Bad Acting" Spared by the Adaptation Fainting Scenery Gorn Psychological Thriller Karma Houdini Badass Boast The Mafia Advertised Extra Vitriolic Best Buds The Smart Guy For the Evulz Crapsack World Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Groin Attack Cool Old Lady Improbable Aiming Skills One Steve Limit Missing Mom Ax-Crazy Bad Boss Cool Guns French Films Fatal Flaw Superhero Wretched Hive Book-Ends Retired Badass Exact Words Unresolved Sexual Tension Accidental Murder Hollywood Darkness Sole Survivor Villain with Good Publicity More Dakka Damsel in Distress Sealed Evil in a Can Foil Car Fu Silent Movie Belligerent Sexual Tension The Ditz Demoted to Extra Very Loosely Based on a True Story Evil Sounds Deep Break the Haughty Foreshadowing Fan Disservice Make It Look Like an Accident Evil Brit Naïve Newcomer Laughing Mad Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Is a Crapshoot Whole Plot Reference Ambiguously Gay Fire-Forged Friends Scary Black Man Police are Useless Death by Irony Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Those Wacky Nazis Deal with the Devil Taking You with Me Happily Married Department of Redundancy Department Straight Gay The Great Depression Scenery Porn Green-Eyed Monster Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Here We Go Again! 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Naked People Are Funny Drowning My Sorrows You Have Failed Me Trailers Always Spoil Kick the Dog No Antagonist Brutal Honesty Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dropped a Bridge on Him Mind Screw I Have Your Wife Defrosting Ice Queen Only Sane Man Bittersweet Ending Frame-Up Crucified Hero Shot The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Darkest Hour Parental Abandonment Grey and Gray Morality Domestic Abuse Corrupt Corporate Executive Broken Aesop Does Not Like Shoes Dutch Angle Double Entendre Deadpan Snarker Mighty Whitey Hollywood Law Adaptation Expansion Darker and Edgier Reasonable Authority Figure Fiery Redhead Distracted by the Sexy Cassandra Truth Blood from the Mouth Breaking the Fourth Wall Reality Ensues Depraved Bisexual Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! It's Personal Black Best Friend Every Car Is a Pinto Eagleland Affably Evil Jerkass Has a Point Insult Backfire Horror Comedy Faking the Dead Mystery and Detective Films Paper-Thin Disguise Back from the Dead Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Load Ambiguous Disorder Babies Ever After Despair Event Horizon Rousing Speech Neck Snap Rape as Drama Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rule of Three Noodle Incident Canadian Movies The Cameo Married to the Job Amusing Injuries Non-Indicative Name Reality Is Unrealistic All Men Are Perverts Pragmatic Adaptation Sci-Fi Horror Manic Pixie Dream Girl Jerkass Corpsing Killed Mid-Sentence Daddy's Girl No Celebrities Were Harmed Guns Akimbo Spiteful Spit Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Artistic License – Law German Films Crazy-Prepared Ms. Fanservice No Name Given Politically Incorrect Villain Science Fiction Films Bi the Way Offscreen Teleportation A Father to His Men Light Is Not Good Cluster F-Bomb Up to Eleven Be Careful What You Wish For Anachronism Stew Black Comedy Bond Villain Stupidity Only a Flesh Wound Chekhov's Skill Rule of Symbolism Empathic Environment The '60s Disproportionate Retribution The Casanova Never My Fault Arch-Enemy Peek-a-Boo Corpse Alas, Poor Villain Ripped from the Headlines I Just Shot Marvin in the Face All for Nothing Adapted Out Implacable Man Shoot the Shaggy Dog Pretty Little Headshots Adaptation Distillation As Himself Face–Heel Turn Beard of Evil Meet Cute Outrun the Fireball Badass Longcoat Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Conspicuous CG Daylight Horror Together in Death Determinator Badass Grandpa Woman in White Toplessness from the Back Death of a Child Boom, Headshot! "Well Done, Son!" Guy Jerk with a Heart of Gold Disney Villain Death The Starscream Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Asshole Victim Bald of Evil Easily Forgiven Disappeared Dad Decoy Protagonist Even Evil Has Standards Downer Ending World of Ham The Alleged Car Pay Evil unto Evil Half the Man He Used to Be Epic Fail Man on Fire One-Man Army Author Appeal Ass Shove Death by Sex Artistic License – Physics Bloodless Carnage Broken Bird Extreme Doormat La Résistance MacGuffin Break the Cutie Adaptational Attractiveness Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Actually Pretty Funny Sanity Slippage Faux Affably Evil Our Zombies Are Different Antagonist Title Sassy Black Woman Dual Wielding In the Back Once More, with Clarity! 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