Tropescilloscope: Extreme Doormat

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

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