Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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