Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

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

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