Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

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

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