Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

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

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