Tropescilloscope: Karma Houdini

Character gets away with foul deeds while avoiding justice. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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