Tropescilloscope: Screw This, I'm Outta Here!

Character abandons their role in the middle of their service out of frustration or fear. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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