Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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