Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

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

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