Tropescilloscope: Eldritch Abomination

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

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Catapult Nightmare Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hair-Trigger Temper I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Death by Adaptation Martial Arts Movie Adaptational Badass Hollywood Law Manly Tears My Beloved Smother Insane Troll Logic Only Sane Man Leitmotif Intergenerational Friendship Those Two Bad Guys Bi the Way MacGuffin Five-Man Band Naïve Newcomer Jerkass Has a Point Parental Substitute Manipulative Bastard Diabolus ex Machina Demoted to Extra Handicapped Badass The '90s Meaningful Echo Badass Longcoat Off-into-the-Distance Ending Artistic License – Military Wretched Hive Blood Knight Dirty Old Man Awesome, but Impractical Funny Background Event Hong Kong Films Curb-Stomp Battle Male Frontal Nudity Missing Mom Running Gag In Medias Res Fantasy Films Batman Gambit Dark Reprise She's Got Legs Anachronic Order Big Applesauce Death of a Child Faux Affably Evil Actor Allusion Author Appeal Disproportionate Retribution Actually Pretty Funny Room Full of Crazy Celebrity Paradox Once More, with Clarity! Hope Spot Evil Counterpart Shoot the Shaggy Dog It's Personal "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Improbable Weapon User Soft Glass Super Strength Gender Flip Early Installment Weirdness Berserk Button Dutch Angle Every Car Is a Pinto Wham Shot Animated Credits Opening Redshirt Army Stealth Pun Not So Above It All Made of Iron Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Amoral Attorney Crazy Jealous Guy Taking You with Me Evil Is Petty Male Gaze Never Found the Body The Ditz Evil Laugh Sassy Black Woman Blackmail It Will Never Catch On The Faceless Gorn Pragmatic Villainy Defiant to the End Bittersweet Ending Naked People Are Funny Frame-Up Plucky Comic Relief Depraved Bisexual All Men Are Perverts The Musical Maybe Ever After World of Ham Here We Go Again! Heroic BSoD Non-Indicative Name Deconstruction Camp Gay Big-Bad Ensemble Would Hit a Girl No Ending The Brute Back from the Dead Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Destination Defenestration An Aesop Advertised Extra Dramatic Irony Closed Circle Redemption Equals Death The Place Biopic Let's Get Dangerous! 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Due to the Dead Tagline The Smart Guy Bound and Gagged Historical-Domain Character Bowdlerise Fish out of Water Not So Different Black Comedy Offscreen Teleportation Bald of Evil Red Right Hand timeperiod Didn't Think This Through Badass Boast Never Trust a Trailer Wounded Gazelle Gambit All Girls Want Bad Boys Ambiguously Gay Sir Swears-a-Lot Drives Like Crazy Adorkable Mood Whiplash Arc Words Flashback Logo Joke Freeze-Frame Bonus My God, What Have I Done? '80s Hair And the Adventure Continues Men Are the Expendable Gender A.I. Is a Crapshoot Totally Radical Older Than They Look Homage A God Am I Red Eyes, Take Warning Honor Before Reason Guns Akimbo Disney Death Hell Is That Noise Retcon Pyrrhic Victory Not Using the "Z" Word Works Set in World War II "Awesome McCool" Name Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Voiceless Costume Porn How We Got Here Cain and Abel Bavarian Fire Drill The Power of Love Dark Action Girl Eagleland Fantastic Racism Politically Incorrect Villain Revenge Smoking Is Cool Silence Is Golden All There in the Script May–December Romance Unusually Uninteresting Sight In the Back Monumental Damage Nice Hat Card-Carrying Villain Dwindling Party Earn Your Happy Ending Hypocrite Spiteful Spit Mind Screw Psycho for Hire The Mafia Freudian Excuse Black Dude Dies First For Want of a Nail Mugging the Monster I Need a Freaking Drink Beard of Evil Science Fiction Films Brother–Sister Incest German Films Our Vampires Are Different Names to Run Away from Really Fast Abhorrent Admirer Children Are Innocent Off with His Head! Boom, Headshot! What the Hell, Hero? Disappeared Dad Neck Snap Sports Stories Sole Survivor Laser-Guided Karma Agony of the Feet Christmas Movies Index Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Eiffel Tower Effect Big "NO!" Sequel Hook Token Minority Fate Worse than Death Put on a Bus Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Alliterative Name Expository Hairstyle Change Take a Third Option Immune to Bullets Deus ex Machina Those Two Guys Vacation Films Hero of Another Story Chiaroscuro Nice Guy Greater-Scope Villain Hidden Depths No OSHA Compliance Malevolent Masked Men Sequel Escalation Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Sanity Slippage You Have Failed Me Poor Communication Kills Unusual Euphemism Never My Fault Expy Adapted Out Butt-Monkey Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Heterosexual Life-Partners Dull Surprise Film Series What Happened to the Mouse? Serial Killer Black and Gray Morality Cool Old Lady Black Best Friend Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Anti-Villain Kick the Dog Get Out! Dirty Cop Villainous Breakdown Developing Doomed Characters Sexy Discretion Shot Trailers Always Spoil Dark Is Not Evil Meaningful Background Event Contrived Coincidence Neck Lift Romantic Comedy The Oner Hate Sink Mercy Kill Author Avatar The '60s Up to Eleven NO INDOOR VOICE Ironic Echo Beware the Nice Ones Darker and Edgier As the Good Book Says... The Stinger Decoy Protagonist Truth in Television Plot Hole Overprotective Dad Peek-a-Boo Corpse Self-Deprecation Parental Neglect Death by Sex Groin Attack Artistic License – Gun Safety Reasonable Authority Figure Man on Fire The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Worthy Opponent Creator Cameo In Name Only A Date with Rosie Palms Kill It with Fire Betty and Veronica Not What It Looks Like Calling the Old Man Out Reality Ensues Mythology Gag Intrepid Reporter Disney Villain Death Bilingual Bonus One Steve Limit Well-Intentioned Extremist Took a Level in Badass Twist Ending No Antagonist Extreme Doormat Failed a Spot Check Suspiciously Similar Substitute Mystery and Detective Films The Big Guy Bad Boss Vampire Fiction Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Happily Married Dressing as the Enemy The Quiet One Exact Words The Mole Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dropped a Bridge on Him Have a Gay Old Time Married to the Job Stealth Hi/Bye Evil vs. Evil The Dragon Central Theme Action Girl Our Zombies Are Different I Have Your Wife Your Head A-Splode Outrun the Fireball Shower Scene Curse Cut Short Playing Gertrude Based on a True Story Documentary Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Jitter Cam Too Dumb to Live The Ace Gone Horribly Right Establishing Character Moment Papa Wolf Brainless Beauty Public Domain Feature Films Title Drop Hooker with a Heart of Gold Country Matters Bullying a Dragon Villain Ball Determinator Enemy Mine Informed Ability The Great Depression Deal with the Devil Cassandra Truth Everyone Has Standards Beauty Is Never Tarnished Double-Meaning Title Bar Brawl Defrosting Ice Queen Gainax Ending B-Movie The X of Y Henpecked Husband Artistic License – Physics Alpha Bitch Whole Plot Reference Small Name, Big Ego Ghost Fiction Gold Digger Broken Pedestal Pretty Little Headshots And Starring Reckless Gun Usage Same Language Dub Fatal Flaw More Dakka Tranquil Fury Bond One-Liner Scary Black Man For the Evulz Epic Fail Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Reveal Real Life Bury Your Gays Artistic License – Law Annoying Younger Sibling Your Cheating Heart Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dramatic Gun Cock Bland-Name Product The Load Spared by the Adaptation Cat Fight The Dog Bites Back Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Ship Tease Crazy-Prepared Mexican Standoff Say My Name There Is No Kill Like Overkill Cool Shades Villain Protagonist The Remake You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Stoner The Cavalry Needs Wiki Magic Love Gory Discretion Shot The Chessmaster Mama Bear British Films Mad Scientist Even Evil Has Loved Ones No Name Given Suddenly SHOUTING! The Stoic Parental Abandonment Genre Shift From Bad to Worse I Did What I Had to Do Stock Footage Canon Foreigner Badass in a Nice Suit It Can Think Framing Device Left the Background Music On Straight Gay Punny Name Insistent Terminology Anyone Can Die Major Injury Underreaction Rule of Three Faking the Dead War Is Hell Pretty in Mink Pay Evil unto Evil Cat Scare Woman in White Drugs Are Bad Dark and Troubled Past Credits Gag Moment Killer Fan Disservice Death Seeker As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bait-and-Switch Would Hurt a Child Apocalypse How Silent Movie No Celebrities Were Harmed Shell-Shocked Veteran Kill 'em All Big Damn Heroes Adaptational Villainy Adaptational Heroism Badass Bookworm Antagonist Title Unresolved Sexual Tension Interrupted Suicide Accidental Misnaming 20 Minutes into the Future Setting Update Riddle for the Ages Pre-Mortem One-Liner Lampshade Hanging Aside Glance Paper-Thin Disguise Bring My Brown Pants Only One Name This Is Gonna Suck All There in the Manual Artistic License – History The Sociopath Four-Temperament Ensemble Dramedy Morality Pet Tap on the Head I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Canadian Movies The Vamp Nothing Is Scarier Break the Haughty Improvised Weapon Cool Guns The Lost Lenore Asshole Victim Fake Shemp Shut Up, Hannibal! Film Noir Index A Father to His Men Eyepatch of Power Horror Comedy Good Is Not Nice Gilligan Cut Affectionate Parody Russian Films Almost Kiss Armor-Piercing Question Line-of-Sight Name Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Grievous Bottley Harm Foil Slasher Smile Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Bully Loophole Abuse Important Haircut Bottomless Magazines Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Facial Horror Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sinister Minister Spell My Name with an "S" Obfuscating Stupidity French Films Stepford Smiler Eldritch Abomination Obviously Evil It's All About Me Laughing Mad Properly Paranoid Leaning on the Fourth Wall Casting Gag Artistic License – Geography The Film of the Book Abusive Parents Slasher Movie Dissonant Serenity Psychological Thriller Pragmatic Adaptation Genre Throwback Adaptation Distillation Random Events Plot Vomit Discretion Shot Shirtless Scene Instant Death Bullet Ambiguous Disorder Historical Villain Upgrade Babies Ever After Rule of Symbolism Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Not Quite Dead Hypocritical Humor Italian Films Dies Wide Open Music Stories Lighter and Softer The Un-Reveal Foregone Conclusion Coming-of-Age Story Deliberate Values Dissonance Alas, Poor Villain Cruel and Unusual Death Mistaken for Gay Unwitting Instigator of Doom Death by Irony Obstructive Bureaucrat Fingore Stuff Blowing Up Double Entendre Friend to All Children Foreshadowing Cluster F-Bomb N-Word Privileges Rape as Drama Wham Line Refuge in Audacity Evil Brit Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Alcoholic Hero Antagonist The Hero Dies No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Call-Forward The Ghost Half the Man He Used to Be Corrupt Corporate Executive Jump Scare The Bad Guy Wins Easily Forgiven Bond Villain Stupidity Anachronism Stew Spiritual Successor Mundane Made Awesome Heel Realization Anti-Hero Ambiguous Ending Fiery Redhead Offscreen Moment of Awesome Unreliable Narrator Becoming the Mask Take That! Big Bad Duumvirate Artistic License – Biology Serious Business Skewed Priorities Adults Are Useless The Chick Anguished Declaration of Love Camera Abuse Beta Couple Eureka Moment Fire-Forged Friends Historical Hero Upgrade Adaptation Name Change Affably Evil Catch-Phrase Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Precision F-Strike Red Herring Cold-Blooded Torture Pimped-Out Dress Slashed Throat True Companions Victoria's Secret Compartment Jerk Jock Ascended Extra Gratuitous English Combat Pragmatist Face Death with Dignity Soundtrack Dissonance Adaptation Expansion Military and Warfare Films Broken Aesop The Lancer Ominous Latin Chanting Fatal Family Photo Department of Redundancy Department Police Brutality Action Survivor Fanservice Big Fancy House Rated M for Manly Daylight Horror Rule of Cool Deliberately Monochrome An Arm and a Leg Covers Always Lie Famous Last Words Animal Motifs Motor Mouth Loads and Loads of Characters Parental Incest Fun with Acronyms