Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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