Tropescilloscope: Insane Troll Logic

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

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