Tropescilloscope: Drives Like Crazy

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

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