Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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