Tropescilloscope: Fatal Family Photo

Showing family photo to others = certain death. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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