Tropescilloscope: Eldritch Abomination

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

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