Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

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

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