Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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