Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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