Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

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

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