Tropescilloscope: Insane Troll Logic

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

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