Tropescilloscope: Drives Like Crazy

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

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Maybe Ever After And I Must Scream Honor Before Reason Tranquil Fury Anachronism Stew Bloodier and Gorier The Load Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Plot Hole Cool Old Guy Exact Words Attempted Rape Plucky Comic Relief Animated Credits Opening The Bully The Hero Meet Cute Overprotective Dad Shoot the Shaggy Dog Deconstruction Man on Fire Jerk Jock Never Found the Body Catapult Nightmare Pretty in Mink Parental Substitute Foreshadowing Historical In-Joke timeperiod Everyone Has Standards Cain and Abel Badass in a Nice Suit Anti-Villain Trailers Always Spoil All There in the Manual Gorn Cassandra Truth Visual Pun Getting Crap Past the Radar Monumental Damage Death by Sex Reasonable Authority Figure No Antagonist Large Ham Slashed Throat Karma Houdini I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The '60s The Stoner Easily Forgiven The Faceless Rule of Funny Implacable Man Cloudcuckoolander Important Haircut Mugging the Monster Early-Bird Cameo Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Expy Cold-Blooded Torture You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Outrun the Fireball Animal Motifs No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Beauty Is Never Tarnished Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Author Appeal In the Back Hero of Another Story And Starring Even Evil Has Standards Logo Joke Hidden Depths Action Girl Dirty Cop Retired Badass An Arm and a Leg Heroes Want Redheads Dark and Troubled Past Arc Words Bald of Evil The Reveal The End... Or Is It? Index of Film Westerns Victoria's Secret Compartment As You Know What Happened to the Mouse? Children Are Innocent Agony of the Feet Big Damn Heroes Adult Fear Badass Normal A.I. 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Meaningful Name From Nobody to Nightmare Heel–Face Turn Villain Protagonist Dramatic Gun Cock Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism I Did What I Had to Do Police Brutality Totally Radical Fantastic Racism Gilligan Cut Time Skip Danny Peary Cult Movies List Five-Man Band Darker and Edgier Sports Stories Ambiguous Disorder "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Villain Song Works Set in World War II Superhero Slap-Slap-Kiss Humiliation Conga 20 Minutes into the Future In Name Only Blood Knight Big Bad Manly Tears Didn't Think This Through In Medias Res Evil vs. Evil Would Hurt a Child NO INDOOR VOICE Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Mythology Gag Annoying Younger Sibling Hooker with a Heart of Gold Death Seeker Contrived Coincidence Improvised Weapon Stalker with a Crush Foregone Conclusion Decoy Protagonist Bare Your Midriff Bait-and-Switch Manchild Red Oni, Blue Oni Abusive Parents The Alleged Car Mooks Scary Black Man Not What It Looks Like Spanner in the Works Video Credits Riddle for the Ages Brick Joke Eagleland Rated M for Manly Rich Bitch Adaptation Name Change Insane Troll Logic Hollywood Darkness Character Development Dropped a Bridge on Him Ax-Crazy All There in the Script The Lancer Deliberately Monochrome Romantic Comedy Artistic License – Law Developing Doomed Characters