Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

The story has intense, sudden mood swings. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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