Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

Worrying about something unimportant instead of what's more important. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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