Tropescilloscope: Flipping the Bird

Extending the middle finger in irritation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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