Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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