Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

Loves killing and torturing people, and getting paid for it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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