Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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