Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

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

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