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