Tropescilloscope: Psycho for Hire

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

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