Tropescilloscope: Laser-Guided Karma

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

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