Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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