Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

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

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