Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

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

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