Tropescilloscope: Kick the Son of a Bitch

Someone kicked the dog, but it doesn't seem as bad because the dog was mean. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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