Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

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

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