Tropescilloscope: Eldritch Abomination

A monster that is surreal and incomprehensible in nature. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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