Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

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

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