Tropescilloscope: Extreme Doormat

The character is unmotivated and has no drive, but freely bends to the will of others. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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