Tropescilloscope: Room Full of Crazy

Writing on the walls shows obsession. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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