Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

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

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