Tropescilloscope: Madness Mantra

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

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