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