Tropescilloscope: Drives Like Crazy

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

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