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