Tropescilloscope: Fatal Flaw

The ultimate problem with a character. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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