Tropescilloscope: Drugs Are Bad

Chemical substances consumed for recreational purposes? Nope. That's bad. Very, very bad. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes An Arm and a Leg Belligerent Sexual Tension Kill It with Fire B-Movie Left the Background Music On Epic Fail Undying Loyalty Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Evil Sounds Deep Suspiciously Similar Substitute Red Shirt Same Language Dub Bait-and-Switch Didn't Think This Through O.O.C. Is Serious Business Whole Plot Reference Zombie Stories Darkest Hour Shower Scene Wicked Cultured Light Is Not Good Awesome, but Impractical Enemy Mine Not So Stoic Twist Ending A God Am I Beard of Evil Older Than They Look Loads and Loads of Characters Stepford Smiler Here We Go Again! Foreshadowing You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Central Theme The Lancer Blatant Lies Sci-Fi Horror In the Back Cassandra Truth Five-Man Band Ascended Extra Villain Opening Scene True Companions Reasonable Authority Figure Black Comedy Rape Naked People Are Funny Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fat Bastard Advertised Extra Killed Mid-Sentence Love Triangle Bavarian Fire Drill Exact Words You Have Failed Me Rousing Speech Shoot the Shaggy Dog Skewed Priorities The Lost Lenore Mexican Standoff Heel–Face Turn Historical In-Joke Stock Footage Arch-Enemy Death of a Child Never Found the Body Becoming the Mask Bare Your Midriff The Bully Bloody Hilarious Vampire Fiction Anyone Can Die Meaningful Name Off-into-the-Distance Ending Soft Glass Improvised Weapon Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Real Life Writes the Plot Demonic Possession Eiffel Tower Effect Pre-Mortem One-Liner Stealth Pun Spell My Name with an "S" Maybe Ever After Knife Nut Television Movie Index In Medias Res An Aesop The '60s Deal with the Devil Meet Cute The Smurfette Principle Laughing Mad Parental Abandonment Recycled IN SPACE! Beta Couple Badass Longcoat Thriller Offscreen Teleportation Pretty Little Headshots British Films Demoted to Extra Fire-Forged Friends Roaring Rampage of Revenge Badass Boast Camera Abuse Good Is Not Nice Calling the Old Man Out My God, What Have I Done? Scare Chord Spiteful Spit Sinister Minister Unresolved Sexual Tension Damsel in Distress I Need a Freaking Drink Put on a Bus Big Bad Captain Ersatz Gory Discretion Shot Bland-Name Product Parental Incest Lock and Load Montage Unusually Uninteresting Sight Kick the Son of a Bitch Obviously Evil Cool Old Lady Bad "Bad Acting" Contrived Coincidence Every Car Is a Pinto Disproportionate Retribution Insane Troll Logic Only Known by Their Nickname Knight Templar Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Victoria's Secret Compartment It's Personal Eyepatch of Power World of Ham Big Damn Heroes Wrong Genre Savvy Breaking the Fourth Wall Artistic License – Biology Shut Up, Hannibal! The Power of Love Meaningful Background Event Rule of Three He Knows Too Much Riddle for the Ages Mood Whiplash Papa Wolf Dramatic Irony Match Cut Room Full of Crazy Big Eater Femme Fatale Flipping the Bird Imagine Spot La Résistance Conspicuous CG Pay Evil unto Evil Dull Surprise The Great Depression Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Drives Like Crazy Australian Movies Psychological Thriller Almost Kiss Death by Sex Needs Wiki Magic Love No Celebrities Were Harmed Disguised in Drag I Have Your Wife Novelization Artistic License – Military Heterosexual Life-Partners Big Bad Duumvirate The Sociopath Kick the Dog Ax-Crazy The Un-Reveal Alliterative Name Shirtless Scene Pimped-Out Dress Suspiciously Specific Denial Grievous Bottley Harm Villainous Breakdown Those Wacky Nazis Children Are Innocent Wounded Gazelle Gambit Cain and Abel Soundtrack Dissonance The Stinger Dramatic Gun Cock Evil vs. Evil Suddenly SHOUTING! Aside Glance Star-Crossed Lovers Italian Films Would Hit a Girl Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Last-Name Basis Reality Is Unrealistic Blood from the Mouth Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Sexy Discretion Shot Hate Sink Jerkass Has a Point The Smart Guy Non-Indicative Name Cowboy Cop Dissonant Serenity The Bad Guy Wins Humans Are Bastards Butt-Monkey Brainless Beauty The Alleged Car Public Domain Feature Films Early Installment Weirdness Heroic BSoD No-Sell A Date with Rosie Palms Gorn Punny Name The Mole Sanity Slippage What Happened to the Mouse? Bad Boss Disney Death Author Avatar Mr. Exposition Disappeared Dad No OSHA Compliance Comically Missing the Point Not What It Looks Like Jump Scare Alas, Poor Villain Hollywood Law French Films Cool Car Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane A.I. Is a Crapshoot Peek-a-Boo Corpse Villain Song Air-Vent Passageway Nice Hat Accidental Murder Framing Device Foregone Conclusion Creator Cameo My Beloved Smother No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Ass Shove Guile Hero Playing Gertrude Blackmail folderlabel Faking the Dead Stylistic Suck I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Stuff Blowing Up Sole Survivor Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Oner Dual Wielding Anachronic Order Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Bullying a Dragon Earn Your Happy Ending Drill Sergeant Nasty Deliberate Values Dissonance Take That! "The Reason You Suck" Speech Groin Attack Nothing Is Scarier Works Set in World War II Downer Ending The Vamp "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Product Placement Facial Horror Historical Villain Upgrade Serial Killer Together in Death Bloodless Carnage Vitriolic Best Buds Death by Adaptation The '50s Heroic Sacrifice Sports Stories Film Noir Decoy Protagonist Fatal Flaw Overprotective Dad Straight Gay Wretched Hive Adaptation Distillation Scenery Gorn Hollywood Darkness Ship Tease Not Quite Dead Took a Level in Badass Those Two Guys Adults Are Useless Spared by the Adaptation More Dakka Tap on the Head Title Drop Actor Allusion Four-Temperament Ensemble Male Gaze Have a Gay Old Time Big Applesauce Token Minority Cool Shades Mythology Gag The Chick Award-Bait Song Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Missing Mom Funny Foreigner Mind Screw Man on Fire Vomit Indiscretion Shot Slasher Smile Corpsing Improbable Aiming Skills Motor Mouth Overly Long Gag Kill 'em All Abhorrent Admirer Back from the Dead Leaning on the Fourth Wall Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Hong Kong Films Famous Last Words Adaptational Villainy Arranged Marriage Card-Carrying Villain Gender Flip Genre Throwback Guns Akimbo Defiant to the End Crapsack World Lighter and Softer Black Best Friend Informed Ability Russian Films Leave the Camera Running Artistic License – Gun Safety A Father to His Men Training Montage Frame-Up Fiery Redhead Make It Look Like an Accident Laser-Guided Karma Bottomless Magazines Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping '80s Hair Manipulative Bastard Shout-Out For the Evulz Dirty Cop Too Dumb to Live Taking the Bullet Karma Houdini Extreme Doormat Adult Fear Worthy Opponent Chewing the Scenery No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Film Noir Index You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Covers Always Lie Protagonist Title Oh, Crap! Plot Hole Dropped a Bridge on Him Men Are the Expendable Gender Random Events Plot Vacation Films timeperiod The Remake Broken Aesop Important Haircut Manly Tears Big Brother Instinct Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Big-Bad Ensemble Superhero Red Right Hand I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Quiet One Fun with Acronyms Sadistic Choice Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique N-Word Privileges Dramedy Tagline Mad Scientist Call-Back Fake Shemp Eureka Moment Small Name, Big Ego Department of Redundancy Department The '90s The Musical Dogged Nice Guy Costume Porn Credits Gag Fantasy Films Malevolent Masked Men Very Loosely Based on a True Story Race Against the Clock Drowning My Sorrows Translation Convention The Faceless Bowdlerise She Cleans Up Nicely Psycho for Hire Gainax Ending Improbable Weapon User Military and Warfare Films Take a Third Option Love at First Sight Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Hell Is That Noise Gilligan Cut Shown Their Work Heroes Want Redheads Gone Horribly Right Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Rule of Cool Apocalypse How Celebrity Paradox Not So Above It All The Ace Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ungrateful Bastard Slap-Slap-Kiss Handicapped Badass Jerkass The Dog Bites Back Took a Level in Jerkass The Chessmaster Major Injury Underreaction Rich Bitch Redemption Equals Death Honor Before Reason Book-Ends Double Entendre Fish out of Water Running Gag Hooker with a Heart of Gold Brick Joke Getting Crap Past the Radar Greater-Scope Villain Parental Substitute Affably Evil Psychopathic Manchild Sealed Evil in a Can Chiaroscuro Closed Circle Coming-of-Age Story Word of God Failed a Spot Check The Dragon Be Careful What You Wish For Naïve Newcomer Hero Antagonist The X of Y And I Must Scream Not So Different As You Know Obfuscating Stupidity Time Skip Crazy Jealous Guy Japanese Films Happily Married Paper-Thin Disguise Jerk with a Heart of Gold Plucky Comic Relief Crazy-Prepared The Alcoholic Offscreen Moment of Awesome Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Bond One-Liner Adaptation Dye-Job Funny Background Event Race Lift Cluster F-Bomb Unusual Euphemism Anti-Villain Once More, with Clarity! "Awesome McCool" Name Chase Scene Our Vampires Are Different Deus ex Machina Daddy's Girl Hypocrite Humiliation Conga Insistent Terminology Adaptation Name Change Slashed Throat Horror Comedy All There in the Manual Villain with Good Publicity Fourth Date Marriage Kids Are Cruel Flashback Auto Erotica The End... Or Is It? Badass in a Nice Suit Narrator Super Strength Defrosting Ice Queen Serious Business Slasher Movie Adapted Out Index of Film Westerns Henpecked Husband Say My Name One-Word Title Danny Peary Cult Movies List Moment Killer Annoying Younger Sibling Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Punch-Clock Villain Cold-Blooded Torture Music Stories Black and Gray Morality A Minor Kidroduction Continuity Nod Irony Rule of Symbolism Empathic Environment Scary Black Man Badass Grandpa Abusive Parents Creepy Child Ambiguous Ending Badass Bookworm Adaptational Badass Parental Neglect Idiot Ball Evil Is Petty Babies Ever After Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Unwitting Instigator of Doom Historical Hero Upgrade Sacrificial Lion Developing Doomed Characters German Films Chekhov's Gun Large Ham Despair Event Horizon Those Two Bad Guys This Is Gonna Suck The Mafia Would Hurt a Child Did Not Get the Girl Smoking Is Cool Accidental Misnaming Evil Laugh Canadian Movies Pretty in Mink The Cameo Vomit Discretion Shot Action Genre Mama Bear Pragmatic Villainy Silent Movie Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Early-Bird Cameo Lampshade Hanging Determinator aka: The Determinator Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Historical-Domain Character Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" It Will Never Catch On Retirony Genre Savvy Deadpan Snarker Totally Radical Destination Defenestration Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bury Your Gays Dark Reprise Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Spanner in the Works Domestic Abuse Mundane Made Awesome Never My Fault Crucified Hero Shot Canon Foreigner Expository Hairstyle Change Better to Die than Be Killed Darker and Edgier Ghost Fiction Dirty Old Man Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Nice Guy Pyrrhic Victory The Voiceless Rule of Funny No Ending Pragmatic Adaptation Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Implacable Man Line-of-Sight Name The Ditz Anguished Declaration of Love Ambiguously Gay Beauty Is Never Tarnished Break the Haughty Bolivian Army Ending Woman Scorned All There in the Script MacGuffin Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Shell-Shocked Veteran Police Brutality It Can Think Rasputinian Death Male Frontal Nudity Evil-Detecting Dog Bald of Evil Action Survivor Karmic Death Truth in Television Rape as Drama Alpha Bitch Freudian Excuse Rated M for Manly Self-Deprecation Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Black Dude Dies First Animal Motifs Outrun the Fireball Evil Counterpart Green-Eyed Monster Authority Equals Asskicking Madness Mantra All Men Are Perverts Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Up to Eleven Horror Films Hope Spot Not Using the "Z" Word Friend to All Children The Reveal Leitmotif Obstructive Bureaucrat Bi the Way Sequel Escalation Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Get Out! Heel Realization Break the Cutie Retired Badass Adaptational Attractiveness Attempted Rape Curb-Stomp Battle I'm a Humanitarian Black Comedy As Himself Mystery and Detective Films Call-Forward Hair-Trigger Temper Shipper on Deck Christmas Movies Index Sassy Black Woman Fanservice Extra May–December Romance Bilingual Bonus Artistic License – Law Actually Pretty Funny Cool Old Guy Country Matters Tranquil Fury "Well Done, Son!" Guy All Girls Want Bad Boys Red Oni, Blue Oni Made of Iron Documentary And the Adventure Continues Mercy Kill Logo Joke Antagonist Title Red Eyes, Take Warning Intrepid Reporter Fantastic Racism Double-Meaning Title Unspoken Plan Guarantee Red Herring Broken Bird Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Posthumous Character Half the Man He Used to Be Redshirt Army Poor Communication Kills Your Cheating Heart Visual Pun Artistic License – Physics One-Man Army Bond Villain Stupidity Easily Forgiven Bunny-Ears Lawyer Eldritch Abomination Hero of Another Story Science Fiction Films Daylight Horror There Is No Kill Like Overkill The '70s Meaningful Echo Mooks Author Appeal Spiritual Successor Captain Obvious Well-Intentioned Extremist From Nobody to Nightmare Ms. Fanservice What the Hell, Hero? Faux Affably Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Extremely Short Timespan Eye Scream Ripped from the Headlines Only in It for the Money Asshole Victim Neck Snap Drugs Are Bad Manchild Scenery Porn Stealth Hi/Bye Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Boom, Headshot! Exactly What It Says on the Tin Dark Is Not Evil The Stoic Casting Gag Freeze-Frame Bonus Noodle Incident Betty and Veronica Off with His Head! Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dwindling Party She's Got Legs Fate Worse than Death Wham Shot What You Are in the Dark Married to the Job Cruel and Unusual Death Fatal Family Photo Affectionate Parody Taking You with Me Broken Pedestal Distracted by the Sexy Death Glare Loophole Abuse Re-Cut The Brute Cloudcuckoolander Everyone Has Standards Aluminum Christmas Trees Deliberately Monochrome Establishing Character Moment The Hero Jerk Jock Combat Pragmatist Police are Useless Pet the Dog Cat Scare Armor-Piercing Question Sir Swears-a-Lot Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Sequel Hook Market-Based Title Age Lift Wham Line Made of Explodium And Starring Hypocritical Humor Anti-Hero Mighty Whitey Animated Credits Opening Precision F-Strike Fan Disservice Action Prologue Chekhov's Skill Cat Fight Evil Brit Film Series The Big Guy Corrupt Corporate Executive Dirty Coward Badass Normal Dark and Troubled Past No Antagonist Adaptation Expansion Only Sane Man Creative Closing Credits Grey and Gray Morality Interrupted Suicide Tempting Fate Villain Protagonist Dark Action Girl Ominous Latin Chanting Real Life Villain Ball Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Chekhov's Gunman An Axe to Grind Berserk Button Gratuitous English Romantic False Lead Really Gets Around Smug Snake Biopic Due to the Dead Stalker with a Crush Woman in White Anachronism Stew As the Good Book Says... Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Mr. Fanservice Homage My Greatest Failure Bar Brawl Evil Plan Not Even Bothering with the Accent Composite Character Ironic Echo Rewatch Bonus Catch-Phrase How We Got Here Fanservice Expy Reality Has No Subtitles Does Not Like Shoes Bittersweet Ending Big "NO!" One Steve Limit Politically Incorrect Villain Evil Is Hammy From Bad to Worse Arc Words Driven to Suicide Kubrick Stare Car Fu I Did What I Had to Do The Ghost Immune to Bullets Artistic License – Geography Let's Get Dangerous! Animal Title Index Silence Is Golden Manic Pixie Dream Girl The '80s Brother–Sister Incest Gold Digger Beware the Nice Ones Our Zombies Are Different Even Evil Has Loved Ones "Shaggy Dog" Story Reckless Gun Usage The Casanova Dies Wide Open Mugging the Monster No Name Given Yandere Fainting The Cavalry Face Death with Dignity Diabolus ex Machina Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Character Development All Just a Dream All for Nothing Never Trust a Trailer Based on a True Story Monumental Damage Insult Backfire Retcon 20 Minutes into the Future Catapult Nightmare Determinator As Long as It Sounds Foreign Amusing Injuries Blood Knight Ambiguous Disorder Dying Moment of Awesome Only a Flesh Wound Amoral Attorney After the End Bound and Gagged Names to Run Away from Really Fast Artistic License – History The Film of the Book Deconstruction Only One Name Revenge Dutch Angle You Killed My Father The Place Eagleland Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Trailers Always Spoil Setting Update Brutal Honesty Epic Movie Show Within a Show Camp Gay Curse Cut Short Death Seeker Properly Paranoid The Hero Dies Depraved Bisexual For Want of a Nail Big Fancy House NO INDOOR VOICE Storming the Castle Romantic Comedy Death by Irony Foil Your Head A-Splode Even Evil Has Standards Does This Remind You of Anything? It's All About Me Toplessness from the Back Bring My Brown Pants Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Morality Pet Bloodier and Gorier Video Credits The Stoner Instant Death Bullet In Name Only Hoist by His Own Petard Batman Gambit Adaptational Heroism Cool Guns Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Martial Arts Movie Face–Heel Turn Jitter Cam Hidden Depths Unreliable Narrator Refuge in Audacity Action Girl The Load Dumb Blonde Agony of the Feet The Dreaded Mistaken for Gay Neck Lift The Starscream Reality Ensues BFG He Who Fights Monsters Final Girl Intergenerational Friendship Adorkable Genre Shift War Is Hell Disney Villain Death Body Horror Fingore Dressing as the Enemy The Atoner