Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

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

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