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