Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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