Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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