Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

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

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