Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

This character gets angry all the time, and about anything. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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