Tropescilloscope: The Dog Bites Back

Abuse someone too much, and they'll make you regret it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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