Tropescilloscope: Insane Troll Logic

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

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