Tropescilloscope: Eldritch Abomination

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

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They Really Do Love Each Other Car Fu Bottomless Magazines Punny Name Those Two Bad Guys Not Using the "Z" Word Alliterative Name Black Best Friend Establishing Character Moment Kids Are Cruel Missing Mom Canadian Movies Properly Paranoid Babies Ever After Annoying Younger Sibling Dogged Nice Guy Actually Pretty Funny Tempting Fate Spiritual Successor Covers Always Lie Straight Gay Dark Is Not Evil Action Prologue Soundtrack Dissonance Lock and Load Montage Morality Pet Artistic License – Law Scary Black Man Wham Shot Adorkable War Is Hell Faux Affably Evil Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Badass Boast Shown Their Work Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Spell My Name with an "S" Slasher Movie Body Horror Red Oni, Blue Oni Calling the Old Man Out Major Injury Underreaction Hate Sink Gratuitous English Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Pragmatic Villainy Military and Warfare Films Slasher Smile Spared by the Adaptation No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Word of God Yandere Actor Allusion Chase Scene Aside Glance Belligerent Sexual Tension Hell Is That Noise Disney Villain Death Deliberately Monochrome Sole Survivor Hair-Trigger Temper Red Herring Artistic License – Physics Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Pimped-Out Dress "Shaggy Dog" Story Sexy Discretion Shot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Evil Sounds Deep Rated M for Manly Fan Disservice Failed a Spot Check Red Eyes, Take Warning Based on a True Story Silence Is Golden Gory Discretion Shot Everyone Has Standards The Sociopath Say My Name Bond Villain Stupidity The Power of Love Foil Only a Flesh Wound The Musical Broken Aesop Depraved Bisexual Badass Grandpa Noodle Incident Mama Bear Antagonist Title Facial Horror B-Movie Mundane Made Awesome The Ace Agony of the Feet Death of a Child Meet Cute Wham Line Roaring Rampage of Revenge Trailers Always Spoil Sealed Evil in a Can All for Nothing Pretty in Mink Shower Scene World of Ham Deadpan Snarker The Cameo Stealth Pun Television Movie Index Drives Like Crazy Villain Opening Scene The '80s Get Out! 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Dumb Blonde Karmic Death The X of Y No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Wrong Genre Savvy Dutch Angle Left the Background Music On Cold-Blooded Torture Sports Stories The Remake Italian Films Never Found the Body One-Man Army Handicapped Badass Leitmotif Amusing Injuries As the Good Book Says... Abusive Parents Heroic Sacrifice BFG The Ditz Hong Kong Films Artistic License – History Character Development Crapsack World As Long as It Sounds Foreign Leaning on the Fourth Wall Once More, with Clarity! Jerk with a Heart of Gold Index of Film Westerns Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Maybe Ever After Novelization The Big Guy Mighty Whitey The Reveal Real Life The Cavalry Obstructive Bureaucrat Guile Hero One Steve Limit Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Soft Glass Deconstruction Genre Savvy Dwindling Party Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Fat Bastard In the Back Kick the Son of a Bitch Laser-Guided Karma Blood from the Mouth Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Those Wacky Nazis Hollywood Law Face Death with Dignity Exact Words Vampire Fiction A Date with Rosie Palms Vomit Indiscretion Shot Deus ex Machina Brick Joke Made of Explodium Stock Footage Twist Ending Catapult Nightmare Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bi the Way Scenery Porn Camera Abuse Mercy Kill Danny Peary Cult Movies List Anti-Hero Heterosexual Life-Partners Butt-Monkey Leave the Camera Running May–December Romance Flipping the Bird Corpsing Drowning My Sorrows Love at First Sight Dark Action Girl The Great Depression Happily Married Smug Snake Adult Fear Title Drop Ungrateful Bastard Obviously Evil Artistic License – Gun Safety Blood Knight Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Adaptational Villainy All There in the Manual Domestic Abuse Henpecked Husband The Lost Lenore Heroic BSoD Evil-Detecting Dog Rewatch Bonus Black Comedy Rape Affably Evil Card-Carrying Villain Aluminum Christmas Trees Offscreen Moment of Awesome Beta Couple Hooker with a Heart of Gold Posthumous Character Death by Adaptation Evil Brit For the Evulz Jerk Jock Destination Defenestration Catch-Phrase Neck Snap Villainous Breakdown Show Within a Show Kick the Dog British Films Russian Films Fainting Implacable Man Captain Ersatz Improbable Weapon User This Is Gonna Suck Instant Death Bullet Not So Different Corrupt Corporate Executive Cool Guns No-Sell Animated Credits Opening Creator Cameo Product Placement Public Domain Feature Films Your Head A-Splode Historical Hero Upgrade Madness Mantra Abhorrent Admirer Authority Equals Asskicking Back from the Dead Eyepatch of Power Male Frontal Nudity Mistaken for Gay Good Is Not Nice The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Almost Kiss Evil Is Hammy Casting Gag Curb-Stomp Battle Loophole Abuse Cluster F-Bomb Bond One-Liner Action Survivor Chekhov's Gun Armor-Piercing Question MacGuffin Logo Joke Rule of Symbolism Mr. Fanservice Defiant to the End Intrepid Reporter Taking You with Me Intergenerational Friendship Spiteful Spit In Name Only Book-Ends Nice Guy Anguished Declaration of Love Overly Long Gag For Want of a Nail Shoot the Shaggy Dog Badass Longcoat Creative Closing Credits Villain Ball Beard of Evil Plucky Comic Relief Sequel Hook Celebrity Paradox Pet the Dog The Vamp The Hero Rule of Funny Dissonant Serenity Suspiciously Specific Denial NO INDOOR VOICE An Arm and a Leg Hidden Depths Didn't Think This Through The Chessmaster Broken Pedestal Credits Gag Jitter Cam Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Protagonist Title Adapted Out Cat Scare Immune to Bullets Victoria's Secret Compartment Meaningful Echo The Mafia Four-Temperament Ensemble Auto Erotica Evil Counterpart Neck Lift Whole Plot Reference Honor Before Reason Irony Bury Your Gays Sacrificial Lion Dies Wide Open Evil Laugh Big Brother Instinct Early-Bird Cameo "Where Are They Now?" 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Is a Crapshoot Your Cheating Heart Stalker with a Crush Canon Foreigner Parental Neglect Toplessness from the Back "Awesome McCool" Name It's Personal Extremely Short Timespan Papa Wolf Funny Background Event Stylistic Suck Ms. Fanservice Imagine Spot Fingore An Aesop No Ending Market-Based Title Together in Death Ghost Fiction Moment Killer Developing Doomed Characters Ambiguous Ending Disguised in Drag Shout-Out Tagline Historical In-Joke Plot Hole Manipulative Bastard Drugs Are Bad Cain and Abel Disney Death Jerkass Sassy Black Woman Did Not Get the Girl Grey and Gray Morality Karma Houdini Knife Nut Dropped a Bridge on Him Epic Fail The Un-Reveal As You Know The Lancer La Résistance Dirty Cop All Girls Want Bad Boys Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Serious Business Fantasy Films Redshirt Army Not Even Bothering with the Accent Undying Loyalty Retired Badass The Stoic Throwing Your Sword Always Works Video Credits Pay Evil unto Evil Star-Crossed Lovers Pragmatic Adaptation Foreshadowing Adaptational Badass I Need a Freaking Drink Mind Screw No OSHA Compliance Works Set in World War II Badass Bookworm As Himself The '70s Shirtless Scene Psycho for Hire Ripped from the Headlines Genre Shift Comically Missing the Point Dramedy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Rasputinian Death From Nobody to Nightmare Fourth Date Marriage Action Girl Time Skip The Hero Dies Downer Ending Fanservice Curse Cut Short The '60s Retirony Determinator aka: The Determinator Dark Reprise I Have Your Wife Action Genre Silent Movie Guns Akimbo Ambiguous Disorder Offscreen Teleportation Race Lift You Killed My Father Fake Shemp Reasonable Authority Figure Double-Meaning Title Make It Look Like an Accident Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fate Worse than Death Eureka Moment Defrosting Ice Queen Nothing Is Scarier Historical Villain Upgrade Blatant Lies Determinator The '90s Death by Sex Villain Song Mythology Gag Scare Chord Humans Are Bastards Truth in Television Adaptational Attractiveness Bad Boss Interrupted Suicide Due to the Dead Creepy Child Big "NO!" Jump Scare Death Glare Author Avatar Dual Wielding Gold Digger Man on Fire Science Fiction Films Our Zombies Are Different Arranged Marriage It Can Think Dramatic Gun Cock Cowboy Cop Real Life Writes the Plot Men Are the Expendable Gender The Casanova Be Careful What You Wish For Large Ham Fish out of Water Put on a Bus The Voiceless Adaptation Dye-Job And the Adventure Continues Author Appeal Stepford Smiler The Quiet One The Alleged Car Riddle for the Ages Brutal Honesty Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Captain Obvious Heel–Face Turn Mugging the Monster She's Got Legs Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bald of Evil Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Alas, Poor Villain Bloodier and Gorier Worthy Opponent After the End What You Are in the Dark Anyone Can Die Police Brutality Big Damn Heroes Important Haircut Flashback Reckless Gun Usage Our Vampires Are Different Award-Bait Song Continuity Nod Ass Shove Wretched Hive Closed Circle Green-Eyed Monster Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Politically Incorrect Villain Only One Name The '50s Eldritch Abomination Department of Redundancy Department Bowdlerise Groin Attack Would Hit a Girl Outrun the Fireball Exactly What It Says on the Tin Malevolent Masked Men Super Strength Expository Hairstyle Change Deliberate Values Dissonance Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Parental Abandonment Mood Whiplash No Antagonist Slashed Throat Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Poor Communication Kills Film Series Only in It for the Money Idiot Ball Made of Iron