Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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