Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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