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