Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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