Tropescilloscope: Mind Screw

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