Tropescilloscope: Laser-Guided Karma

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

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