Tropescilloscope: Laser-Guided Karma

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

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Superhero A Father to His Men Flipping the Bird Smug Snake "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Recycled IN SPACE! Overly Long Gag Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Whole Plot Reference An Arm and a Leg Nothing Is Scarier Epic Movie The Alcoholic Bound and Gagged Unwitting Instigator of Doom Only in It for the Money I Did What I Had to Do Drowning My Sorrows Dogged Nice Guy Ax-Crazy Suddenly SHOUTING! Country Matters Sci-Fi Horror Mexican Standoff Screw This, I'm Outta Here! An Axe to Grind Protagonist Title Instant Death Bullet Skewed Priorities Villainous Breakdown Police Brutality Video Credits Karmic Death A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Great Depression Unspoken Plan Guarantee Deliberate Values Dissonance As the Good Book Says... Call-Back Intergenerational Friendship Big Applesauce Our Vampires Are Different The Vamp Title Drop Naked People Are Funny Music Stories Half the Man He Used to Be Combat Pragmatist Off-into-the-Distance Ending Artistic License – Geography Ambiguous Ending Improvised Weapon No Antagonist You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Shout-Out Evil Sounds Deep Boom, Headshot! 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Properly Paranoid Historical Villain Upgrade Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Parental Abandonment Oh, Crap! The End... Or Is It? Killed Mid-Sentence Silence Is Golden Plucky Comic Relief Redshirt Army Artistic License – Biology Get Out! Hero of Another Story Mind Screw O.O.C. Is Serious Business Sir Swears-a-Lot Insult Backfire Sadistic Choice Woman Scorned Captain Ersatz Blackmail He Who Fights Monsters Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Facial Horror Hope Spot Mundane Made Awesome Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking No Ending Armor-Piercing Question Dark and Troubled Past Important Haircut Deconstruction Serial Killer Punny Name A Minor Kidroduction The Lancer Shirtless Scene Cat Fight folderlabel Needs Wiki Magic Love Covers Always Lie Neck Lift My Greatest Failure Horror Comedy Last-Name Basis Crapsack World Attempted Rape Bald of Evil Star-Crossed Lovers Naïve Newcomer Double-Meaning Title There Is No Kill Like Overkill Humiliation Conga Badass Grandpa Re-Cut Berserk Button Anti-Villain Jitter Cam Adaptational Heroism True Companions He Knows Too Much What the Hell, Hero? 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The Sociopath Kick the Dog Improbable Weapon User Amusing Injuries You Killed My Father Bring My Brown Pants Camp Gay Annoying Younger Sibling Babies Ever After Animal Motifs Cluster F-Bomb Good Is Not Nice Camera Abuse Broken Pedestal The Dragon Badass Bookworm All Girls Want Bad Boys Mercy Kill "The Reason You Suck" Speech Lock and Load Montage Historical Hero Upgrade Celebrity Paradox Bond Villain Stupidity Red Eyes, Take Warning Spell My Name with an "S" Horror Films Ms. Fanservice Noodle Incident Chase Scene Those Two Guys Taking the Bullet Irony Sanity Slippage My Beloved Smother Took a Level in Jerkass Corrupt Corporate Executive Be Careful What You Wish For She Cleans Up Nicely Your Cheating Heart Corpsing Villain Opening Scene Based on a True Story Fanservice Extra In Name Only War Is Hell Worthy Opponent Russian Films All There in the Manual Dark Action Girl Sole Survivor Disproportionate Retribution Pragmatic Adaptation Badass Boast Despair Event Horizon Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Guy Dramatic Irony Ass Shove Only One Name BFG Unreliable Narrator Bury Your Gays Exact Words Adaptation Dye-Job Romantic Comedy Death by Sex Butt-Monkey Homage Gilligan Cut Ghost Fiction '80s Hair Bi the Way Vacation Films Men Are the Expendable Gender Really Gets Around Outrun the Fireball The '90s Mr. Exposition Random Events Plot Composite Character Adaptation Expansion Anti-Hero Blood Knight Rasputinian Death Belligerent Sexual Tension Adaptation Distillation Sequel Hook Too Dumb to Live Mr. Fanservice Daylight Horror Black and Gray Morality Ripped from the Headlines MacGuffin Eagleland Black Best Friend 20 Minutes into the Future Bar Brawl Badass in a Nice Suit Determinator One-Word Title Big Bad Duumvirate Male Frontal Nudity Vampire Fiction Film Noir Refuge in Audacity The '70s Straight Gay Stock Footage Does Not Like Shoes Animal Title Index Lighter and Softer Only Known by Their Nickname Show Within a Show Sassy Black Woman Dutch Angle Shell-Shocked Veteran Cold-Blooded Torture Offscreen Teleportation The Casanova Bottomless Magazines Bad "Bad Acting" Casting Gag Deus ex Machina Malevolent Masked Men Extreme Doormat Adult Fear Comically Missing the Point Madness Mantra Make It Look Like an Accident Pretty in Mink Slasher Smile Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Heel Realization Funny Foreigner Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Gory Discretion Shot Politically Incorrect Villain From Nobody to Nightmare Mugging the Monster Martial Arts Movie Jump Scare Breaking the Fourth Wall Canadian Movies Television Movie Index How We Got Here Tempting Fate Amoral Attorney Drill Sergeant Nasty Rule of Funny Novelization Small Name, Big Ego Does This Remind You of Anything? Rule of Symbolism This Is Gonna Suck Very Loosely Based on a True Story Informed Ability The Ghost Psychopathic Manchild Parental Neglect Vomit Indiscretion Shot Anachronic Order Bare Your Midriff Your Head A-Splode Christmas Movies Index Double Entendre Adapted Out Hong Kong Films Obviously Evil No Name Given Apocalypse How Auto Erotica Wham Shot Light Is Not Good Knight Templar Reality Is Unrealistic Alliterative Name Even Evil Has Standards The Dreaded Hair-Trigger Temper Heterosexual Life-Partners Depraved Bisexual Australian Movies Friend to All Children Knife Nut Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Authority Equals Asskicking Italian Films Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Improbable Aiming Skills Didn't Think This Through Framing Device Bavarian Fire Drill Stealth Pun Dissonant Serenity Plot Hole Batman Gambit Super Strength Everyone Has Standards I Have Your Wife Pet the Dog Psychological Thriller You Have Failed Me Exactly What It Says on the Tin Fire-Forged Friends Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Meet Cute Wham Line Evil Counterpart Antagonist Title Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Reality Has No Subtitles Eyepatch of Power Leitmotif Loads and Loads of Characters Real Life Toplessness from the Back Diabolus ex Machina All There in the Script The Chessmaster Faking the Dead Dressing as the Enemy Kubrick Stare It's Personal Product Placement One-Man Army Handicapped Badass Freudian Excuse Undying Loyalty Famous Last Words Pay Evil unto Evil Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Brick Joke Badass Longcoat Retirony Reality Ensues The Un-Reveal Author Avatar The Power of Love Manchild Shower Scene Henpecked Husband Death Seeker Laughing Mad Green-Eyed Monster Kill 'em All Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Self-Deprecation Dark Is Not Evil Continuity Nod Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Grey and Gray Morality Adaptation Name Change You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Morality Pet The Voiceless Badass Normal Kids Are Cruel Evil Brit Evil Laugh I Need a Freaking Drink Once More, with Clarity! 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For the Evulz Villain Protagonist Woman in White Fiery Redhead The Faceless Shipper on Deck Card-Carrying Villain The Chick Maybe Ever After Tranquil Fury Older Than They Look "Awesome McCool" Name No-Sell Cowboy Cop And Starring Artistic License – Gun Safety Author Appeal Broken Aesop Fun with Acronyms Hidden Depths Interrupted Suicide Freeze-Frame Bonus It Can Think Driven to Suicide Every Car Is a Pinto Domestic Abuse Put on a Bus Deliberately Monochrome Rule of Cool Ambiguous Disorder Central Theme Accidental Murder Alas, Poor Villain Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Animated Credits Opening Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Epic Fail Sequel Escalation Love at First Sight Historical In-Joke Fourth Date Marriage Downer Ending Let's Get Dangerous! Roaring Rampage of Revenge Credits Gag Call-Forward Funny Background Event Arch-Enemy Biopic Bad Boss Guns Akimbo Beard of Evil May–December Romance Mama Bear Not Quite Dead Ascended Extra Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Demoted to Extra Defrosting Ice Queen Mythology Gag And the Adventure Continues Early-Bird Cameo Fatal Flaw Stepford Smiler Chiaroscuro Well-Intentioned Extremist As Long as It Sounds Foreign Chekhov's Skill The Starscream Red Shirt Documentary Rape as Drama Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Imagine Spot Evil-Detecting Dog Did Not Get the Girl Fate Worse than Death Tap on the Head Line-of-Sight Name Evil Is Petty Science Fiction Films Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Blood from the Mouth Posthumous Character In Medias Res Implacable Man Actor Allusion Chekhov's Gun Have a Gay Old Time Pimped-Out Dress Black Dude Dies First Jerk with a Heart of Gold Rewatch Bonus Crucified Hero Shot The Film of the Book Not So Stoic Brutal Honesty Dropped a Bridge on Him Never My Fault Dirty Cop Department of Redundancy Department Cain and Abel Advertised Extra Ambiguously Gay Market-Based Title Playing Gertrude Unusually Uninteresting Sight After the End Public Domain Feature Films Five-Man Band Conspicuous CG All Men Are Perverts Shoot the Shaggy Dog Pragmatic Villainy Smoking Is Cool Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Hero Dies I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Damsel in Distress Artistic License – History Sinister Minister Manic Pixie Dream Girl Deal with the Devil Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Stuff Blowing Up Suspiciously Specific Denial Psycho for Hire Face Death with Dignity Totally Radical Ironic Echo Mistaken for Gay Break the Cutie Aluminum Christmas Trees Off with His Head! 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