Tropescilloscope: Tempting Fate

Don't say it—that's just asking for it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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