Tropescilloscope: Eldritch Abomination

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

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