Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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