Tropescilloscope: The Dog Bites Back

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

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