Tropescilloscope: Laser-Guided Karma

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

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Not Using the "Z" Word Bond Villain Stupidity The Brute Film Noir Index Unresolved Sexual Tension Totally Radical Hidden Depths The Dragon Not What It Looks Like Defiant to the End Stuff Blowing Up Take a Third Option Dramatic Gun Cock The Dog Bites Back Your Head A-Splode Product Placement Neck Lift Insane Troll Logic Would Hit a Girl Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie BFG Deliberately Monochrome Our Vampires Are Different Four-Temperament Ensemble Jerkass Has a Point Overly Long Gag Curse Cut Short Pet the Dog Informed Ability The Smurfette Principle My Greatest Failure Gone Horribly Right Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hell Is That Noise Bi the Way Greater-Scope Villain Extremely Short Timespan Dutch Angle As the Good Book Says... Eureka Moment Chewing the Scenery Taking the Bullet Decoy Protagonist Guile Hero Mighty Whitey Took a Level in Jerkass Dogged Nice Guy The Mafia "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Time Skip Laughing Mad Flashback Call-Forward Mr. Fanservice Brainless Beauty Chekhov's Gun Meaningful Name N-Word Privileges Shirtless Scene Neck Snap Fantasy Films Animated Credits Opening Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Expy Asshole Victim Married to the Job Kubrick Stare May–December Romance Manly Tears Off with His Head! 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Irony Anachronic Order Batman Gambit Artistic License – Military Lock and Load Montage Crucified Hero Shot The Bad Guy Wins Hooker with a Heart of Gold Serious Business Index of Film Westerns Rich Bitch Genre Savvy Dirty Coward Unwitting Instigator of Doom Action Prologue In Medias Res Adaptational Attractiveness Artistic License – Law Ominous Latin Chanting Abusive Parents Retirony Wham Line The Stinger Bound and Gagged One Steve Limit Rated M for Manly Say My Name Hate Sink O.O.C. Is Serious Business Black and Gray Morality World of Ham Take That! Heel Realization Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Creepy Child Jerk with a Heart of Gold Last-Name Basis Wrong Genre Savvy Rasputinian Death Adult Fear Double Entendre Roaring Rampage of Revenge Match Cut Brick Joke The Voiceless folderlabel Bald of Evil Badass Normal Chase Scene Call-Back Artistic License – Gun Safety Enemy Mine Hope Spot Imagine Spot Needs Wiki Magic Love Vomit Discretion Shot Broken Aesop Cowboy Cop Mystery and Detective Films Missing Mom Big Damn Heroes Fatal Flaw A Minor Kidroduction Overprotective Dad Composite Character Twist Ending Immune to Bullets Protagonist Title Shower Scene Adaptational Villainy Reckless Gun Usage Determinator After the End Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Villain Ball Handicapped Badass Genre Throwback Big-Bad Ensemble The Load The Starscream As Long as It Sounds Foreign All for Nothing Henpecked Husband Bland-Name Product It's Personal Suddenly SHOUTING! The Faceless Noodle Incident This Is Gonna Suck Only a Flesh Wound Lighter and Softer Kick the Dog Facial Horror Romantic False Lead Obstructive Bureaucrat No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Shoot the Shaggy Dog Extreme Doormat The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Screw the Money, I Have Rules! From Bad to Worse Cool Guns Anti-Villain Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies It Will Never Catch On Darker and Edgier For the Evulz Crapsack World Dark and Troubled Past Frame-Up Paper-Thin Disguise Leitmotif Manchild Manipulative Bastard You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Hollywood Law Daylight Horror Slap-Slap-Kiss Oh, Crap! You Have Failed Me Actor Allusion Costume Porn Big Applesauce Broken Bird Crazy Jealous Guy Made of Iron Death by Sex Continuity Nod Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bloody Hilarious Madness Mantra Not Even Bothering with the Accent Self-Deprecation Meaningful Echo A God Am I From Nobody to Nightmare A Father to His Men Villain Protagonist Camera Abuse Mama Bear She's Got Legs Real Life Writes the Plot Christmas Movies Index Shipper on Deck Riddle for the Ages Everyone Has Standards Captain Ersatz Children Are Innocent There Is No Kill Like Overkill Action Genre Historical In-Joke Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fanservice Punch-Clock Villain Non-Indicative Name Retired Badass Unusual Euphemism Fantastic Racism Really Gets Around Armor-Piercing Question Mooks Damsel in Distress Diabolus ex Machina Failed a Spot Check Show Within a Show No Antagonist The Dreaded Sanity Slippage Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Line-of-Sight Name Ghost Fiction Together in Death Villainous Breakdown '80s Hair Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Demoted to Extra Rule of Symbolism Becoming the Mask Star-Crossed Lovers Anguished Declaration of Love Creator Cameo I Need a Freaking Drink Vampire Fiction Get Out! The Lancer Dying Moment of Awesome "Shaggy Dog" Story Boom, Headshot! Badass Boast Brother–Sister Incest Woman in White Hero of Another Story Works Set in World War II Super Strength NO INDOOR VOICE Obviously Evil Sexy Discretion Shot Wham Shot Translation Convention Precision F-Strike Closed Circle Would Hurt a Child Fan Disservice Central Theme Cloudcuckoolander Jerk Jock Kill 'em All Dramatic Irony Drowning My Sorrows In the Back Framing Device Fate Worse than Death Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Catch-Phrase Scenery Gorn Actually Pretty Funny Guns Akimbo Badass Longcoat Horror Comedy Arch-Enemy Pay Evil unto Evil Retcon I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Flipping the Bird Reality Ensues Laser-Guided Karma Adaptation Distillation Alas, Poor Villain Sinister Minister Vomit Indiscretion Shot Redemption Equals Death Adaptational Heroism Australian Movies Spiteful Spit Naïve Newcomer Evil Is Petty Casting Gag Fake Shemp Ascended Extra Anti-Hero Canon Foreigner Ironic Echo Adorkable Age Lift Even Evil Has Standards Captain Obvious Beard of Evil Tempting Fate Villain Opening Scene Loophole Abuse Adults Are Useless Motor Mouth Training Montage Meaningful Background Event The Remake Danny Peary Cult Movies List Kick the Son of a Bitch Here We Go Again! The Stoic Your Cheating Heart Refuge in Audacity How We Got Here Artistic License – History Properly Paranoid Television Movie Index Market-Based Title Death Glare Fingore Heroes Want Redheads Amoral Attorney Adaptation Expansion Big Eater Red Right Hand Blatant Lies Alpha Bitch Implacable Man Intergenerational Friendship Novelization Destination Defenestration Artistic License – Physics All Men Are Perverts Break the Haughty My God, What Have I Done? Hollywood Darkness Sci-Fi Horror Does This Remind You of Anything? Every Car Is a Pinto Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Freeze-Frame Bonus Drives Like Crazy Gory Discretion Shot Final Girl Hypocritical Humor Mugging the Monster Hero Antagonist The Ace Public Domain Feature Films Apocalypse How Papa Wolf Cat Scare Evil-Detecting Dog Shout-Out Room Full of Crazy Sacrificial Lion Funny Background Event Cruel and Unusual Death Bittersweet Ending Film Noir Not Quite Dead Music Stories The Reveal Badass in a Nice Suit Alliterative Name Freudian Excuse Eye Scream Femme Fatale Abhorrent Admirer Those Two Guys Gold Digger Historical Hero Upgrade Left the Background Music On Politically Incorrect Villain Knight Templar Meet Cute All Girls Want Bad Boys Adaptational Badass The Smart Guy Ambiguous Disorder Male Frontal Nudity Unreliable Narrator Credits Gag Amusing Injuries Redshirt Army Funny Foreigner Trailers Always Spoil Bar Brawl Storming the Castle Major Injury Underreaction The Vamp Jump Scare Wounded Gazelle Gambit Beta Couple Romantic Comedy Death Seeker Author Appeal Adaptation Name Change Early-Bird Cameo I Did What I Had to Do Skewed Priorities Contrived Coincidence Offscreen Teleportation Karmic Death "Awesome McCool" Name Black Comedy Up to Eleven Kill It with Fire Ripped from the Headlines The '70s Moment Killer Big Fancy House Peek-a-Boo Corpse Put on a Bus My Beloved Smother Death of a Child Pretty Little Headshots Those Wacky Nazis Ship Tease Sealed Evil in a Can Double-Meaning Title All Just a Dream I'm a Humanitarian Cat Fight Older Than They Look Combat Pragmatist Getting Crap Past the Radar Big Brother Instinct The Alleged Car Gender Flip Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Silent Movie Early Installment Weirdness Hoist by His Own Petard Berserk Button Celebrity Paradox An Axe to Grind timeperiod Depraved Bisexual Award-Bait Song Gratuitous English Curb-Stomp Battle Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Brutal Honesty Token Minority Throwing Your Sword Always Works Book-Ends Leaning on the Fourth Wall Pyrrhic Victory Fourth Date Marriage Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Face Death with Dignity Slasher Smile Grey and Gray Morality Woman Scorned The End... Or Is It? Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Cold-Blooded Torture Fanservice Extra Drill Sergeant Nasty Film Series Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Hero Historical-Domain Character Vacation Films The Lost Lenore Sports Stories Stealth Hi/Bye Due to the Dead Morality Pet Accidental Misnaming Famous Last Words Red Shirt Sequel Escalation Eyepatch of Power Random Events Plot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bloodless Carnage Earn Your Happy Ending The Bully Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Too Dumb to Live Fatal Family Photo Dirty Cop Police Brutality Foreshadowing Tranquil Fury Unspoken Plan Guarantee Slasher Movie Hypocrite Friend to All Children Car Fu Improbable Aiming Skills Does Not Like Shoes One-Man Army Corrupt Corporate Executive The Film of the Book Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Almost Kiss The Musical Ambiguous Ending Japanese Films Police are Useless Belligerent Sexual Tension Insult Backfire Scary Black Man Rule of Three Gilligan Cut Let's Get Dangerous! 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Is a Crapshoot Conspicuous CG Never Trust a Trailer Bullying a Dragon Deconstruction "The Reason You Suck" Speech Make It Look Like an Accident Those Two Bad Guys Spiritual Successor Soundtrack Dissonance Blackmail The Un-Reveal Darkest Hour Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane What You Are in the Dark Slashed Throat Plucky Comic Relief Expository Hairstyle Change Evil Counterpart Deliberate Values Dissonance The '50s Faking the Dead Wicked Cultured Fiery Redhead Maybe Ever After Mind Screw Anyone Can Die Offscreen Moment of Awesome Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Bury Your Gays Awesome, but Impractical Pretty in Mink Animal Motifs Rule of Funny Driven to Suicide Bond One-Liner Only Sane Man Important Haircut Bowdlerise Epic Fail Tap on the Head Determinator aka: The Determinator Pragmatic Villainy Toplessness from the Back Stepford Smiler Advertised Extra Stylistic Suck Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Hong Kong Films Documentary Department of Redundancy Department Manic Pixie Dream Girl Death by Irony Black Best Friend You Killed My Father Blonde, Brunette, Redhead French Films Improvised Weapon Reality Is Unrealistic Chekhov's Skill Dressing as the Enemy Beauty Is Never Tarnished Good Is Not Nice All There in the Script Be Careful What You Wish For Evil Plan Dissonant Serenity Suspiciously Specific Denial Vitriolic Best Buds For Want of a Nail Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy And the Adventure Continues Mr. Exposition Reality Has No Subtitles Cool Car Small Name, Big Ego Parental Neglect Death by Adaptation Big Bad Blood Knight Scenery Porn In Name Only Bait-and-Switch The Power of Love You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Spell My Name with an "S" Fish out of Water Narrator The Great Depression Attempted Rape The Ditz Genre Shift Empathic Environment Black Dude Dies First The '80s Stalker with a Crush Body Horror Humiliation Conga Punny Name Insistent Terminology Mood Whiplash Only in It for the Money Parental Abandonment Ungrateful Bastard Bare Your Midriff The Oner The Chick Animal Title Index B-Movie Based on a True Story No-Sell Annoying Younger Sibling Pimped-Out Dress Calling the Old Man Out Mundane Made Awesome Deadpan Snarker Badass Bookworm Russian Films The Casanova Truth in Television Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Character Development Cain and Abel Not So Above It All The Sociopath Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Science Fiction Films Ms. Fanservice Defrosting Ice Queen Red Eyes, Take Warning Martial Arts Movie Wretched Hive Accidental Murder What the Hell, Hero? Exact Words Never My Fault Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Epic Movie Bring My Brown Pants Jerkass Sir Swears-a-Lot Nice Guy Spared by the Adaptation No Name Given Large Ham The Cameo Heterosexual Life-Partners Mexican Standoff Victoria's Secret Compartment Evil Brit A Date with Rosie Palms Scare Chord Leave the Camera Running Even Evil Has Loved Ones Spanner in the Works Broken Pedestal Silence Is Golden Rape as Drama She Cleans Up Nicely Male Gaze I Have Your Wife Psychological Thriller Crazy-Prepared Only Known by Their Nickname Dual Wielding Bilingual Bonus Taking You with Me British Films Breaking the Fourth Wall Arranged Marriage