Tropescilloscope: Tempting Fate

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

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