Tropescilloscope: I Have Your Wife

Do what I say or your wife gets it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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