Tropescilloscope: Gorn

Gratuitous, over-the-top graphic violence. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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