Tropescilloscope: Insane Troll Logic

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

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