Tropescilloscope: Laser-Guided Karma

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

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