Tropescilloscope: Insane Troll Logic

A character creates numerous logical fallacies or bizarre leaps in logic. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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