Tropescilloscope: Insult Backfire

Your insult isn't one. At least not to your target. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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