Tropescilloscope: Laser-Guided Karma

When bad things happen to bad people at opportune times. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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