Tropescilloscope: Fatal Flaw

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

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