Tropescilloscope: The Alcoholic

Guy who drinks a lot. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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