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