Tropescilloscope: Madness Mantra

Insanity leads to constant repetition. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Poor Communication Kills Dutch Angle Fourth Date Marriage Berserk Button Overprotective Dad Have a Gay Old Time "The Reason You Suck" Speech Line-of-Sight Name From Bad to Worse Obfuscating Stupidity Vomit Indiscretion Shot Animal Motifs Captain Obvious Break the Haughty Documentary Grey and Gray Morality Final Girl Karmic Death Knife Nut Jump Scare Hoist by His Own Petard Missing Mom The Atoner Beta Couple Your Head A-Splode Wham Line Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bad Boss Apocalypse How Evil Counterpart Sacrificial Lion Author Appeal Not So Stoic Chekhov's Gun Developing Doomed Characters Bald of Evil Deadpan Snarker Daylight Horror Car Fu Psycho for Hire Cassandra Truth All Just a Dream Beauty Is Never Tarnished Same Language Dub The '90s Broken Bird Dressing as the Enemy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Spiteful Spit It Will Never Catch On Rape as Drama Protagonist Title Canadian Movies Despair Event Horizon Fate Worse than Death Major Injury Underreaction Slap-Slap-Kiss Never Trust a Trailer Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Man on Fire Bavarian Fire Drill Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Artistic License – History Ambiguous Ending Brick Joke Early Installment Weirdness Genre Throwback Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mexican Standoff I Have Your Wife Deus ex Machina Death by Adaptation Fiery Redhead The Mole Small Name, Big Ego Manipulative Bastard Heel Realization Anachronism Stew Coming-of-Age Story You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Casanova Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Truth in Television Central Theme You Have Failed Me Reality Ensues Artistic License – Law Adaptation Name Change Asshole Victim Silent Movie Call-Back Award-Bait Song Kubrick Stare It's All About Me Cowboy Cop An Arm and a Leg "Awesome McCool" Name The Cameo Celebrity Paradox Sole Survivor He Knows Too Much Karma Houdini Drives Like Crazy Sports Stories Get Out! Bloodless Carnage What Happened to the Mouse? What You Are in the Dark Honor Before Reason Maybe Ever After Slashed Throat Everyone Has Standards Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bland-Name Product A.I. Is a Crapshoot Only a Flesh Wound Expy Dumb Blonde Demonic Possession Character Development Driven to Suicide Animal Title Index Greater-Scope Villain Pyrrhic Victory Red Shirt Does Not Like Shoes Author Avatar Unreliable Narrator All There in the Script Funny Background Event Broken Aesop Evil Plan Be Careful What You Wish For Never Found the Body The Sociopath Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Belligerent Sexual Tension Cool Old Guy The Smart Guy Serious Business Contrived Coincidence Pragmatic Villainy Papa Wolf Loophole Abuse A Date with Rosie Palms Our Zombies Are Different Call-Forward Neck Lift Batman Gambit Fire-Forged Friends Dull Surprise Disguised in Drag Insistent Terminology Heroes Want Redheads Even Evil Has Loved Ones MacGuffin Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Bully Only One Name Historical Hero Upgrade Noodle Incident Brutal Honesty Madness Mantra Attempted Rape Shown Their Work Dying Moment of Awesome Woman in White Leave the Camera Running Disney Villain Death Agony of the Feet Parental Incest Rule of Cool Narrator Slasher Movie Victoria's Secret Compartment True Companions Gender Flip Vampire Fiction Green-Eyed Monster Bottomless Magazines Black Dude Dies First Peek-a-Boo Corpse Race Lift Butt-Monkey Running Gag Artistic License – Geography Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Kids Are Cruel Villain Opening Scene Together in Death Suspiciously Specific Denial Badass Longcoat The '80s Black Best Friend Homage Superhero Crazy Jealous Guy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cruel and Unusual Death No Name Given Woman Scorned Visual Pun From Nobody to Nightmare Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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