Tropescilloscope: The Bully

That kid at school who always picks on you. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Rape as Drama Drugs Are Bad Dropped a Bridge on Him Retcon My Greatest Failure Adults Are Useless Heroic BSoD Skewed Priorities Reality Has No Subtitles Tempting Fate Not So Above It All Bond Villain Stupidity Danny Peary Cult Movies List Death by Sex Immune to Bullets Documentary One-Word Title Attempted Rape Red Shirt Russian Films Index of Film Westerns Blood from the Mouth Spell My Name with an "S" Darker and Edgier Sadistic Choice Sir Swears-a-Lot Gilligan Cut Fingore The Film of the Book Determinator aka: The Determinator Parental Abandonment Improbable Weapon User Chiaroscuro Crazy-Prepared Hair-Trigger Temper Groin Attack Scare Chord Shower Scene Sacrificial Lion Gone Horribly Right Leitmotif Naked People Are Funny Translation Convention Deliberate Values Dissonance Trailers Always Spoil Grey and Gray Morality Dark Is Not Evil Romantic False Lead Loads and Loads of Characters Say My Name Deadpan Snarker Tranquil Fury You Have Failed Me Badass Grandpa Defrosting Ice Queen Insult Backfire Dull Surprise Suddenly SHOUTING! 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She Cleans Up Nicely Ambiguously Gay You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Moment Killer Death Seeker Villain Song More Dakka Heel Realization Babies Ever After Kick the Son of a Bitch Henpecked Husband Brick Joke Call-Forward I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Loophole Abuse War Is Hell Pimped-Out Dress Boom, Headshot! Antagonist Title Defiant to the End What You Are in the Dark Psychological Thriller Even Evil Has Standards Anti-Villain Genre Savvy Action Girl Unwitting Instigator of Doom Fantastic Racism "The Reason You Suck" Speech Playing Gertrude Off with His Head! Self-Deprecation Artistic License – Biology Those Two Guys Monumental Damage Apocalypse How Hong Kong Films Awesome, but Impractical The Chick Badass Longcoat The End... Or Is It? Honor Before Reason Mind Screw Advertised Extra The Dog Bites Back Didn't Think This Through Dwindling Party I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Deus ex Machina Male Frontal Nudity Together in Death Black Comedy Rape Black Best Friend Psychopathic Manchild Flashback Love at First Sight Betty and Veronica Ominous Latin Chanting Science Fiction Films Silence Is Golden Villainous Breakdown Manic Pixie Dream Girl Epic Movie Kick the Dog Names to Run Away from Really Fast Running Gag Bilingual Bonus Redemption Equals Death Hero of Another Story Cat Fight Berserk Button Noodle Incident Mexican Standoff Poor Communication Kills Japanese Films Insane Troll Logic Big "NO!" Meaningful Background Event Hollywood Law Bottomless Magazines World of Ham Re-Cut Big Bad Duumvirate And I Must Scream The '80s And the Adventure Continues Becoming the Mask Dark Action Girl Drives Like Crazy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass An Arm and a Leg Here We Go Again! The '60s Chekhov's Gun Star-Crossed Lovers Artistic License – Gun Safety Arc Words Unresolved Sexual Tension Grievous Bottley Harm Protagonist Title Suspiciously Specific Denial Dramedy Whole Plot Reference Fantasy Films Gratuitous English Curb-Stomp Battle Punctuated! For! Emphasis! My Beloved Smother The Smurfette Principle Film Noir Canadian Movies Animal Motifs Closed Circle Recycled IN SPACE! Dissonant Serenity Adaptational Villainy Dying Moment of Awesome Sports Stories Token Minority Fate Worse than Death Big Bad Did Not Get the Girl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Room Full of Crazy Fire-Forged Friends Not Using the "Z" Word Easily Forgiven Disappeared Dad Eye Scream Gold Digger The Chessmaster Diabolus ex Machina Darkest Hour Award-Bait Song Visual Pun No Celebrities Were Harmed Bullying a Dragon Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Guy Aluminum Christmas Trees Bait-and-Switch Alliterative Name Homage Hell Is That Noise Scenery Porn Soundtrack Dissonance Action Genre Our Vampires Are Different Historical Villain Upgrade Arranged Marriage Love Triangle Mugging the Monster Cool Car Guns Akimbo Celebrity Paradox The Alleged Car Vitriolic Best Buds Big-Bad Ensemble folderlabel Shipper on Deck Creator Cameo Taking You with Me Logo Joke Distracted by the Sexy Eyepatch of Power Meaningful Echo Obfuscating Stupidity Pragmatic Adaptation Tap on the Head Insistent Terminology Wicked Cultured Evil Is Hammy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Rousing Speech Curse Cut Short Twist Ending Scary Black Man Credits Gag Novelization Not What It Looks Like Amoral Attorney He Knows Too Much Lighter and Softer Ungrateful Bastard Plucky Comic Relief Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Accidental Murder Men Are the Expendable Gender Kill It with Fire Shout-Out Based on a True Story timeperiod Only Sane Man Coming-of-Age Story For Want of a Nail Pragmatic Villainy B-Movie Abhorrent Admirer Market-Based Title BFG May–December Romance Victoria's Secret Compartment Hypocrite Pre-Mortem One-Liner Make It Look Like an Accident N-Word Privileges The Stinger Cain and Abel Nice Guy Four-Temperament Ensemble I Need a Freaking Drink Crazy Jealous Guy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Hooker with a Heart of Gold Humiliation Conga Only One Name Femme Fatale Double Entendre Framing Device Rasputinian Death "Awesome McCool" Name Music Stories Rule of Three Be Careful What You Wish For NO INDOOR VOICE The Quiet One Sexy Discretion Shot Gender Flip Jerkass Has a Point Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Lock and Load Montage Manipulative Bastard MacGuffin Evil vs. Evil "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Damsel in Distress Hate Sink Film Noir Index Actually Pretty Funny The Atoner Hope Spot The Ditz Dogged Nice Guy Stealth Pun Mistaken for Gay The Stoner Beta Couple Genre Shift Black and Gray Morality Historical Hero Upgrade Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Wounded Gazelle Gambit A Date with Rosie Palms Spiritual Successor It Can Think I Did What I Had to Do Adapted Out Pet the Dog Setting Update It's Personal Badass Normal Tagline Small Name, Big Ego Broken Pedestal Body Horror Badass Boast Kill 'em All All There in the Script Extreme Doormat Artistic License – Physics Cluster F-Bomb Straight Gay Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bring My Brown Pants Blackmail Took a Level in Badass The Un-Reveal Yandere Break the Haughty Video Credits Cool Guns Spared by the Adaptation Mr. Exposition Call-Back Death by Adaptation Not So Stoic The '70s Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Dark Reprise Fanservice Extra Undying Loyalty True Companions Sassy Black Woman Red Oni, Blue Oni Does Not Like Shoes Big Applesauce Action Prologue Never My Fault Police are Useless No Name Given Mood Whiplash Narrator O.O.C. Is Serious Business Fatal Flaw Super Strength Dirty Coward Australian Movies The Cavalry Throwing Your Sword Always Works Corpsing Casting Gag Back from the Dead Foil Police Brutality Your Cheating Heart Alas, Poor Villain Never Trust a Trailer Dumb Blonde Evil Laugh Green-Eyed Monster Retirony Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Pretty Little Headshots Reckless Gun Usage The Load Precision F-Strike Conspicuous CG Woman in White Shoot the Shaggy Dog Corrupt Corporate Executive French Films The Place Manly Tears Race Against the Clock The Cameo The '50s Composite Character Disproportionate Retribution Expy Only in It for the Money Cool Old Guy Double-Meaning Title Country Matters Chase Scene Stylistic Suck Anyone Can Die Mooks Obviously Evil Bolivian Army Ending Enemy Mine An Aesop Your Head A-Splode Empathic Environment Parental Neglect Meet Cute Contrived Coincidence Would Hurt a Child The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Slasher Smile Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Failed a Spot Check Plot Hole Posthumous Character Dark and Troubled Past Politically Incorrect Villain Accidental Misnaming Asshole Victim Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Rewatch Bonus Artistic License – Law Ship Tease Overly Long Gag This Is Gonna Suck Even Evil Has Loved Ones Ironic Echo Early-Bird Cameo Batman Gambit Bloodier and Gorier Stuff Blowing Up Killed Mid-Sentence Cowboy Cop Fake Shemp Manchild British Films Gainax Ending Bald of Evil Wham Line Air-Vent Passageway Dies Wide Open Too Dumb to Live Half the Man He Used to Be Offscreen Teleportation And Starring A God Am I Badass in a Nice Suit There Is No Kill Like Overkill Riddle for the Ages Male Gaze Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Annoying Younger Sibling Depraved Bisexual Cold-Blooded Torture Sequel Escalation Random Events Plot The Ghost Romantic Comedy Hollywood Darkness Good Is Not Nice Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor All for Nothing Eiffel Tower Effect Silent Movie Break the Cutie Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Downer Ending Rule of Funny Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adaptation Distillation Crapsack World Does This Remind You of Anything? Badass Bookworm Anti-Hero Animal Title Index Interrupted Suicide After the End Spanner in the Works Book-Ends Smug Snake Wham Shot One-Man Army Peek-a-Boo Corpse Shirtless Scene Determinator Humans Are Bastards Ambiguous Disorder Bare Your Midriff Ripped from the Headlines Works Set in World War II Dual Wielding The X of Y What the Hell, Hero? Parental Incest The Ace Off-into-the-Distance Ending Motor Mouth Bloodless Carnage Leaning on the Fourth Wall Redshirt Army Morality Pet Punch-Clock Villain Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Stepford Smiler Vampire Fiction Costume Porn Dramatic Irony Heterosexual Life-Partners As Long as It Sounds Foreign As the Good Book Says... 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Woman Scorned The Dragon Adaptational Badass Bad "Bad Acting" Deal with the Devil Vacation Films Creative Closing Credits Adaptation Name Change Demoted to Extra The Remake Knight Templar She's Got Legs The Brute