Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

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

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Evil Brit Even Evil Has Standards Leave the Camera Running All for Nothing Cool Old Lady Babies Ever After Put on a Bus Music Stories The Place Covers Always Lie Cat Fight Mr. Fanservice Curb-Stomp Battle Mistaken for Gay It Will Never Catch On Wounded Gazelle Gambit Auto Erotica Dirty Coward Cold-Blooded Torture Market-Based Title The Big Guy Token Minority Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Load Mexican Standoff No Name Given The Alleged Car Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Mood Whiplash Never Found the Body Extremely Short Timespan Camp Gay Faking the Dead Adaptational Badass Exact Words I Need a Freaking Drink Shipper on Deck Empathic Environment Mama Bear The Voiceless Let's Get Dangerous! Villain Song Show Within a Show Dying Moment of Awesome Cat Scare Works Set in World War II Adapted Out The Stoner Fun with Acronyms Evil Is Hammy Improbable Aiming Skills Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Conspicuous CG Badass Boast Gainax Ending Groin Attack Becoming the Mask Exactly What It Says on the Tin Heroes Want Redheads Take a Third Option Military and Warfare Films Morality Pet The Brute Evil Laugh Adaptation Dye-Job Male Frontal Nudity Malevolent Masked Men Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Hong Kong Films Psychopathic Manchild Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Belligerent Sexual Tension Failed a Spot Check Artistic License – Biology Grey and Gray Morality Crucified Hero Shot Accidental Murder Properly Paranoid Easily Forgiven Driven to Suicide Sequel Hook Hidden Depths As the Good Book Says... Defrosting Ice Queen Award-Bait Song Left the Background Music On Decoy Protagonist Arranged Marriage After the End The End... Or Is It? 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