Tropescilloscope: Fatal Family Photo

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

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