Tropescilloscope: Eldritch Abomination

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

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