Tropescilloscope: Eldritch Abomination

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

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