Tropescilloscope: Gone Horribly Right

The plan is so successful the consequences become tragic. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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