Tropescilloscope: Drowning My Sorrows

Depression-caused alcoholism. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Make It Look Like an Accident Poor Communication Kills Badass Grandpa Line-of-Sight Name Action Girl Drugs Are Bad Heroic Sacrifice Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Adorkable Alas, Poor Villain Book-Ends The '50s Decoy Protagonist No Ending Tranquil Fury Suddenly SHOUTING! MacGuffin Meaningful Background Event Bi the Way Dropped a Bridge on Him Bullying a Dragon The End... Or Is It? Alliterative Name Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Evil Sounds Deep Arranged Marriage Fun with Acronyms Rich Bitch Brother–Sister Incest The '90s Freudian Excuse The Mole No Celebrities Were Harmed Evil vs. Evil Small Name, Big Ego Moment Killer Meaningful Echo Disproportionate Retribution Empathic Environment Spared by the Adaptation I Have Your Wife The Vamp Mercy Kill Breaking the Fourth Wall Shirtless Scene Shell-Shocked Veteran Fatal Family Photo Does This Remind You of Anything? Implacable Man The Ace Punctuated! For! Emphasis! What Happened to the Mouse? Brainless Beauty Pyrrhic Victory As Himself Ironic Echo Monumental Damage Big Brother Instinct Match Cut Rule of Cool Let's Get Dangerous! Off with His Head! Soft Glass Half the Man He Used to Be Combat Pragmatist Hate Sink Black Best Friend Accidental Misnaming Love at First Sight Your Head A-Splode Sci-Fi Horror Eye Scream Bloodier and Gorier Hell Is That Noise Bond One-Liner My Greatest Failure Punny Name Chiaroscuro Slasher Smile Artistic License – Military Pay Evil unto Evil Artistic License – Gun Safety Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Determinator Psycho for Hire Spiteful Spit Naïve Newcomer Henpecked Husband After the End Silent Movie Every Car Is a Pinto Hero Antagonist Heroes Want Redheads Death by Adaptation O.O.C. Is Serious Business Male Gaze Offscreen Teleportation Jerkass Big Applesauce Friend to All Children Shoot the Shaggy Dog Wounded Gazelle Gambit It's Personal Actually Pretty Funny Insistent Terminology Fate Worse than Death Man on Fire Real Life Dumb Blonde Married to the Job Gainax Ending It Will Never Catch On Vitriolic Best Buds Playing Gertrude The Stoic The Power of Love Ambiguous Disorder No Antagonist Mad Scientist Victoria's Secret Compartment Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Call-Back Handicapped Badass Vacation Films Major Injury Underreaction Red Herring Russian Films Only One Name Punch-Clock Villain Adaptational Villainy The Faceless Adult Fear Obviously Evil Shut Up, Hannibal! Fiery Redhead Put on a Bus Kubrick Stare Hypocrite Pretty Little Headshots She Cleans Up Nicely Adaptation Distillation Enemy Mine The Smart Guy All There in the Script Annoying Younger Sibling Deconstruction Big-Bad Ensemble Get Out! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Epic Fail Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fish out of Water Drives Like Crazy Gender Flip Intrepid Reporter Happily Married Abusive Parents Crazy Jealous Guy Frame-Up Expy Hidden Depths Not So Different You Killed My Father Film Series Does Not Like Shoes Took a Level in Jerkass It Can Think Zombie Stories Chewing the Scenery Music Stories The Remake A.I. 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Black Dude Dies First Mundane Made Awesome Even Evil Has Loved Ones Non-Indicative Name Central Theme Heroic BSoD Fingore Stylistic Suck Skewed Priorities Beta Couple Dutch Angle Artistic License – Physics Aside Glance "Well Done, Son!" 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Artistic License – Geography Police Brutality Groin Attack Psychopathic Manchild Pragmatic Adaptation Gratuitous English Suspiciously Specific Denial Very Loosely Based on a True Story Vomit Discretion Shot How We Got Here Woman Scorned Aluminum Christmas Trees Room Full of Crazy Ominous Latin Chanting Cool Car Reality Ensues Face Death with Dignity Those Two Bad Guys Creator Cameo The Alcoholic Famous Last Words Evil-Detecting Dog Silence Is Golden Advertised Extra Gorn German Films Word of God Disguised in Drag Spanner in the Works Police are Useless Older Than They Look Bavarian Fire Drill Double Entendre Irony Guile Hero Christmas Movies Index Maybe Ever After Scare Chord Blackmail Drowning My Sorrows Wrong Genre Savvy A Minor Kidroduction Death of a Child Show Within a Show Body Horror Stalker with a Crush Properly Paranoid Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Unusual Euphemism Off-into-the-Distance Ending Jerk with a Heart of Gold Madness Mantra Disney Death Red Right Hand Fantasy Films Ambiguously Gay Continuity Nod Dark Reprise Smug Snake N-Word Privileges