Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

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

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