Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

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

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