Tropescilloscope: Flipping the Bird

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

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