Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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