Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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