Tropescilloscope: Madness Mantra

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

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