Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

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

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