Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

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

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