Tropescilloscope: Gone Horribly Right

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

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