Tropescilloscope: Drowning My Sorrows

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

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Humans Are Bastards The Sociopath Naked People Are Funny Dramatic Gun Cock Mooks timeperiod Deadpan Snarker Wicked Cultured Japanese Films Disappeared Dad Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Gainax Ending Easily Forgiven All There in the Manual Cool Shades I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mexican Standoff Agony of the Feet I Have Your Wife The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Sadistic Choice Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bavarian Fire Drill A Minor Kidroduction Deliberate Values Dissonance Man on Fire Jerkass Has a Point Only a Flesh Wound La Résistance Lighter and Softer Heroic Sacrifice Adult Fear Rated M for Manly Corrupt Corporate Executive The '70s Anachronism Stew Almost Kiss Parental Incest Blonde, Brunette, Redhead For the Evulz Hidden Depths Hooker with a Heart of Gold Eagleland Historical Hero Upgrade Brutal Honesty Naïve Newcomer Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Rule of Cool Thriller Evil vs. Evil Take a Third Option Laughing Mad Military and Warfare Films Off-into-the-Distance Ending Shown Their Work Country Matters Ungrateful Bastard Soundtrack Dissonance Canadian Movies Children Are Innocent Mama Bear Artistic License – Physics Hair-Trigger Temper Film Series Russian Films Plucky Comic Relief Shirtless Scene Anyone Can Die Villain with Good Publicity As You Know The Casanova Book-Ends Unwitting Instigator of Doom Villain Ball Jerk with a Heart of Gold Drugs Are Bad Black Comedy Scenery Gorn The '60s Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Chiaroscuro Undying Loyalty Demoted to Extra One-Man Army Never My Fault Sir Swears-a-Lot Gratuitous English I'm a Humanitarian Adaptational Villainy Adorkable One Steve Limit Deconstruction Mind Screw Retirony No-Sell Evil Plan Death by Irony Hero of Another Story Fat Bastard Adults Are Useless Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Pyrrhic Victory Adaptation Expansion Shoot the Shaggy Dog Let's Get Dangerous! Public Domain Feature Films Big-Bad Ensemble Italian Films Arch-Enemy Ominous Latin Chanting Groin Attack Anachronic Order Evil Laugh Insult Backfire Happily Married Would Hurt a Child B-Movie Sexy Discretion Shot All Just a Dream Advertised Extra Real Life Idiot Ball Serious Business Double Entendre Those Two Guys "Awesome McCool" Name Taking the Bullet Captain Ersatz The Oner The Stoic Knight Templar Unspoken Plan Guarantee Call-Forward The Lost Lenore Bad "Bad Acting" Love Triangle Distracted by the Sexy Meaningful Name Hero Antagonist Bury Your Gays Covers Always Lie Index of Film Westerns Black Comedy Rape Author Appeal Mercy Kill Took a Level in Jerkass Deliberately Monochrome Jitter Cam Closed Circle Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Improvised Weapon Small Name, Big Ego Sequel Hook Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Scary Black Man Older Than They Look Break the Haughty Creator Cameo Good Is Not Nice Fantastic Racism Epic Movie Dull Surprise The Dog Bites Back Heel–Face Turn Unreliable Narrator Fun with Acronyms The Quiet One Camera Abuse Brick Joke Once More, with Clarity! Determinator aka: The Determinator Grey and Gray Morality Room Full of Crazy Mystery and Detective Films Martial Arts Movie Science Fiction Films Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Not Quite Dead Darker and Edgier MacGuffin The Chessmaster Chekhov's Gunman Affably Evil The '80s Bond One-Liner Composite Character Adaptational Badass Historical Villain Upgrade Christmas Movies Index Alas, Poor Villain The Ghost Rousing Speech Action Genre Bait-and-Switch The X of Y Extreme Doormat What the Hell, Hero? In the Back Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Affectionate Parody War Is Hell Overly Long Gag Training Montage Babies Ever After Gilligan Cut French Films The Stoner Continuity Nod Heroic BSoD The Great Depression Insistent Terminology Music Stories Informed Ability Spiteful Spit Tap on the Head Hope Spot Everyone Has Standards Rape as Drama It's Personal The '50s Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ghost Fiction Mr. Exposition Femme Fatale Cool Old Lady Ripped from the Headlines Demonic Possession Horror Films Bottomless Magazines No OSHA Compliance Pay Evil unto Evil Imagine Spot Leitmotif Evil Is Hammy Parental Neglect Put on a Bus Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Meaningful Background Event Taking You with Me Obfuscating Stupidity Stuff Blowing Up Disguised in Drag Face–Heel Turn Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Slashed Throat Only Known by Their Nickname Motor Mouth Batman Gambit Sassy Black Woman Only in It for the Money Interrupted Suicide The Bad Guy Wins The Bully Accidental Murder Loads and Loads of Characters Stealth Hi/Bye Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Works Set in World War II Madness Mantra Sole Survivor Cluster F-Bomb Bare Your Midriff Moment Killer Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Friend to All Children Meet Cute Captain Obvious Super Strength Genre Savvy Truth in Television Bring My Brown Pants Funny Foreigner Reality Has No Subtitles Ax-Crazy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Central Theme Body Horror Calling the Old Man Out Together in Death Running Gag Silence Is Golden I Did What I Had to Do Five-Man Band Contrived Coincidence Faking the Dead Card-Carrying Villain Villain Protagonist This Is Gonna Suck Extremely Short Timespan Paper-Thin Disguise Toplessness from the Back Adaptation Distillation Dark and Troubled Past Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dropped a Bridge on Him Actor Allusion Skewed Priorities Even Evil Has Loved Ones Grievous Bottley Harm Guile Hero Big Applesauce Flashback Rich Bitch Amoral Attorney Refuge in Audacity He Knows Too Much Bound and Gagged Maybe Ever After Despair Event Horizon Better to Die than Be Killed Precision F-Strike Line-of-Sight Name The Alcoholic Anti-Villain Visual Pun Fainting My Beloved Smother Kick the Son of a Bitch Tagline Ironic Echo Re-Cut Show Within a Show An Arm and a Leg No Name Given Awesome, but Impractical Armor-Piercing Question Hypocritical Humor You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Plot Hole Crapsack World Biopic Parental Substitute Big Damn Heroes Bland-Name Product Vampire Fiction Tranquil Fury Broken Bird Karmic Death Blatant Lies Reality Is Unrealistic The Smart Guy Peek-a-Boo Corpse Film Noir Index Brother–Sister Incest Disproportionate Retribution Novelization Eyepatch of Power Handicapped Badass Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Ass Shove Hollywood Law Butt-Monkey Anti-Hero Flipping the Bird Artistic License – Gun Safety Beard of Evil Reasonable Authority Figure The Hero Humiliation Conga Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Nice Hat Spell My Name with an "S" Diabolus ex Machina Green-Eyed Monster Male Gaze Wretched Hive Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Light Is Not Good Never Found the Body Alpha Bitch Too Dumb to Live Hypocrite Reckless Gun Usage Sanity Slippage Four-Temperament Ensemble Hell Is That Noise Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Psychological Thriller Pimped-Out Dress Artistic License – History Dark Is Not Evil Death Glare Based on a True Story Lampshade Hanging Market-Based Title Black and Gray Morality Gorn Unusually Uninteresting Sight Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Dark Reprise Dwindling Party Badass in a Nice Suit Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Ship Tease Car Fu Jerk Jock Greater-Scope Villain Make It Look Like an Accident Curb-Stomp Battle Pretty Little Headshots Credits Gag Artistic License – Law Kill It with Fire Really Gets Around Daddy's Girl Ms. Fanservice Bar Brawl Australian Movies Genre Shift Say My Name The Starscream Spiritual Successor The Un-Reveal Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer True Companions Curse Cut Short Bloodless Carnage Slap-Slap-Kiss Determinator The Ace Spanner in the Works The '90s Annoying Younger Sibling Rule of Symbolism Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Scare Chord Age Lift Villain Song "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Mafia Deal with the Devil Morality Pet Kids Are Cruel Vitriolic Best Buds British Films Took a Level in Badass Red Oni, Blue Oni Made of Explodium Wrong Genre Savvy Race Against the Clock Random Events Plot Heel Realization As Long as It Sounds Foreign Our Zombies Are Different Alliterative Name Destination Defenestration Enemy Mine Becoming the Mask Adaptation Name Change Double-Meaning Title Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Papa Wolf Badass Longcoat You Have Failed Me All There in the Script Henpecked Husband Mundane Made Awesome Mistaken for Gay Large Ham BFG Due to the Dead No Antagonist Does This Remind You of Anything? Bolivian Army Ending Sci-Fi Horror Not Even Bothering with the Accent Left the Background Music On Award-Bait Song Artistic License – Military Superhero Chekhov's Gun Empathic Environment Killed Mid-Sentence Cain and Abel Villainous Breakdown A Date with Rosie Palms The Power of Love A God Am I Daylight Horror Shipper on Deck Neck Lift After the End Big Fancy House Rule of Funny Author Avatar Catch-Phrase Dying Moment of Awesome Unusual Euphemism Pet the Dog He Who Fights Monsters Historical In-Joke The Remake It Can Think Improbable Weapon User Fanservice Accidental Misnaming The Brute Homage Cassandra Truth Costume Porn Have a Gay Old Time Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Totally Radical Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Redemption Equals Death Death Seeker Meaningful Echo Offscreen Teleportation The Hero Dies Manchild Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Never Trust a Trailer Dramatic Irony Translation Convention Betty and Veronica Hong Kong Films Storming the Castle Action Prologue Off with His Head! Fatal Flaw My God, What Have I Done? Genre Throwback Catapult Nightmare Early Installment Weirdness Manly Tears Deus ex Machina Recycled IN SPACE! The Place Mythology Gag Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Crazy-Prepared Big Eater Epic Fail Race Lift The Cavalry Cool Car Framing Device Karma Houdini Cool Guns The Vamp The End... Or Is It? The Smurfette Principle It's All About Me Dirty Old Man You Killed My Father Adaptation Dye-Job In Medias Res Drives Like Crazy Beta Couple Foregone Conclusion Roaring Rampage of Revenge Crucified Hero Shot Instant Death Bullet Here We Go Again! Male Frontal Nudity The Big Guy Mad Scientist Failed a Spot Check Badass Normal Amusing Injuries Manic Pixie Dream Girl Animal Title Index Cold-Blooded Torture Foil Dirty Cop Match Cut Dressing as the Enemy Stealth Pun Well-Intentioned Extremist Offscreen Moment of Awesome Slasher Smile Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Get Out! And Starring Authority Equals Asskicking The Mole And I Must Scream Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Aluminum Christmas Trees Straight Gay Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Suspiciously Similar Substitute Suspiciously Specific Denial Breaking the Fourth Wall Retired Badass Television Movie Index Fate Worse than Death Loophole Abuse Nice Guy Missing Mom Serial Killer The Musical Villain Opening Scene Evil Is Petty Rasputinian Death Boom, Headshot! Eldritch Abomination Casting Gag Berserk Button Action Survivor I Need a Freaking Drink Asshole Victim Rewatch Bonus Eureka Moment Depraved Bisexual Mr. Fanservice Smoking Is Cool Obstructive Bureaucrat Star-Crossed Lovers I Want My Beloved to Be Happy World of Ham Call-Back Chekhov's Skill Stepford Smiler Black Dude Dies First Twist Ending Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Drowning My Sorrows Faux Affably Evil Mugging the Monster Documentary Cloudcuckoolander Leaning on the Fourth Wall What Happened to the Mouse? Laser-Guided Karma Death of a Child Improbable Aiming Skills Earn Your Happy Ending Overprotective Dad Drill Sergeant Nasty Dies Wide Open And the Adventure Continues Kubrick Stare Police are Useless It Will Never Catch On Guns Akimbo Gory Discretion Shot Back from the Dead Anguished Declaration of Love Red Eyes, Take Warning The Voiceless Bad Boss Sealed Evil in a Can Your Head A-Splode Intergenerational Friendship Punny Name Title Drop Video Credits NO INDOOR VOICE In Name Only Ambiguous Disorder Apocalypse How Police Brutality Darkest Hour Dogged Nice Guy Time Skip Creative Closing Credits Bullying a Dragon More Dakka Facial Horror Politically Incorrect Villain The Stinger Only Sane Man For Want of a Nail Suddenly SHOUTING! All Men Are Perverts Arranged Marriage Film Noir Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Chase Scene Artistic License – Biology Real Life Writes the Plot N-Word Privileges Woman Scorned Foreshadowing Creepy Child Stalker with a Crush "Shaggy Dog" Story Jump Scare Chewing the Scenery Mighty Whitey From Nobody to Nightmare O.O.C. Is Serious Business Blood from the Mouth Animal Motifs Red Herring Arc Words Married to the Job Romantic Comedy Face Death with Dignity Bloody Hilarious Dissonant Serenity Self-Deprecation Fire-Forged Friends No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Not So Above It All Antagonist Title Adaptational Heroism Very Loosely Based on a True Story Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Romantic False Lead Word of God Fingore Malevolent Masked Men Last-Name Basis Narrator She's Got Legs Downer Ending Men Are the Expendable Gender Nothing Is Scarier Important Haircut Chuck Cunningham Syndrome All Girls Want Bad Boys Developing Doomed Characters Worthy Opponent Attempted Rape Dual Wielding Heroes Want Redheads Scenery Porn Death by Adaptation Sinister Minister Dramedy Coming-of-Age Story Your Cheating Heart Cowboy Cop Fiery Redhead Manipulative Bastard Hollywood Darkness Dutch Angle There Is No Kill Like Overkill Establishing Character Moment Eiffel Tower Effect Stock Footage Freeze-Frame Bonus The Cameo The Lancer Badass Bookworm Revenge Hate Sink Camp Gay Properly Paranoid Reality Ensues The Reveal Not So Different Red Right Hand Big Brother Instinct Animated Credits Opening Implacable Man Not So Stoic Historical-Domain Character Noodle Incident Vomit Discretion Shot How We Got Here She Cleans Up Nicely Mood Whiplash A.I. Is a Crapshoot Ragtag Bunch of Misfits As the Good Book Says... Setting Update Those Two Bad Guys Getting Crap Past the Radar Conspicuous CG Retcon Intrepid Reporter No Ending No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Shower Scene Combat Pragmatist Action Girl Those Wacky Nazis Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Expy Slasher Movie The Atoner Dumb Blonde The Dragon Monumental Damage The Ditz Red Shirt Celebrity Paradox Didn't Think This Through Every Car Is a Pinto Jerkass