Tropescilloscope: The Dog Bites Back

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

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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