Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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