Tropescilloscope: The Alleged Car

Less-than-road-worthy vehicle. Don't try driving it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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