Tropescilloscope: The Starscream

Villain's top minion plans to betray their master to claim power for themselves. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Not Using the "Z" Word Adaptation Distillation Sassy Black Woman Better to Die than Be Killed Big-Bad Ensemble Stalker with a Crush Distracted by the Sexy Rule of Three Your Cheating Heart Documentary Japanese Films Only in It for the Money Sir Swears-a-Lot Framing Device Pretty in Mink Book-Ends Evil Brit Sequel Escalation Deliberately Monochrome Epic Fail Kids Are Cruel Betty and Veronica Character Development Put on a Bus The Dog Bites Back Word of God Car Fu Woman in White Cowboy Cop Silence Is Golden Protagonist Title Kill It with Fire Manly Tears Groin Attack You Killed My Father Fantasy Films She Cleans Up Nicely The Oner I Have Your Wife Instant Death Bullet Public Domain Feature Films Blatant Lies Shown Their Work Improbable Weapon User Creator Cameo Arranged Marriage Adaptational Villainy Romantic False Lead Hollywood Darkness Annoying Younger Sibling Bland-Name Product Only Known by Their Nickname Foreshadowing Leaning on the Fourth Wall MacGuffin Spanner in the Works Obfuscating Stupidity The Un-Reveal Double Entendre Heterosexual Life-Partners Riddle for the Ages Small Name, Big Ego Chase Scene Villain with Good Publicity Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Vomit Indiscretion Shot Death by Irony Bavarian Fire Drill Death by Adaptation The Smart Guy Creepy Child Expository Hairstyle Change Breaking the Fourth Wall Action Genre Married to the Job It Will Never Catch On I Need a Freaking Drink Artistic License – History Karmic Death My Beloved Smother Rasputinian Death Red Shirt Despair Event Horizon How We Got Here Babies Ever After Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Unwitting Instigator of Doom Butt-Monkey Ass Shove Friend to All Children Frame-Up Genre Savvy Product Placement Hell Is That Noise Calling the Old Man Out Pre-Mortem One-Liner Logo Joke Did Not Get the Girl Curse Cut Short Historical-Domain Character Double-Meaning Title Sadistic Choice Big Bad Early Installment Weirdness Action Prologue Ominous Latin Chanting Naïve Newcomer Karma Houdini Only Sane Man Older Than They Look Sexy Discretion Shot Suspiciously Specific Denial Hidden Depths Maybe Ever After La Résistance Flipping the Bird The Sociopath Closed Circle Blood Knight Face–Heel Turn Crucified Hero Shot Badass Boast Hero Antagonist Death of a Child Red Oni, Blue Oni Bond Villain Stupidity Wicked Cultured An Aesop The Chick Fan Disservice She's Got Legs Deal with the Devil Dull Surprise Badass Normal Bar Brawl Famous Last Words Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Anguished Declaration of Love Good Is Not Nice Only a Flesh Wound Arch-Enemy Death Seeker Jitter Cam Science Fiction Films Fourth Date Marriage Fanservice Extra Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Mugging the Monster Honor Before Reason Crapsack World The End... Or Is It? The Alleged Car Intergenerational Friendship Downer Ending Back from the Dead Obviously Evil Darker and Edgier Punch-Clock Villain Those Two Guys The Bad Guy Wins Trailers Always Spoil B-Movie Whole Plot Reference Cain and Abel Evil-Detecting Dog Red Herring The Stoic Freudian Excuse Pretty Little Headshots Fat Bastard The Power of Love Idiot Ball War Is Hell Black Comedy Rape Meaningful Name Jerk Jock From Nobody to Nightmare Actually Pretty Funny Jerkass Has a Point The Smurfette Principle Break the Haughty Dissonant Serenity Black Comedy Sci-Fi Horror Defrosting Ice Queen The Dreaded The Place Demonic Possession Blonde, Brunette, Redhead What the Hell, Hero? 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Ax-Crazy Corpsing Continuity Nod Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Shut Up, Hannibal! Well-Intentioned Extremist Tagline Rule of Symbolism Mercy Kill For Want of a Nail Kick the Son of a Bitch Grey and Gray Morality BFG Pragmatic Villainy Bound and Gagged Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Eldritch Abomination Woman Scorned A God Am I The Hero Sole Survivor Ambiguous Disorder The Ditz Dutch Angle Wham Shot Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Grievous Bottley Harm The Musical The Alcoholic Scare Chord '80s Hair Stealth Pun Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Foil Film Noir Index And the Adventure Continues Unreliable Narrator Ironic Echo Apocalypse How Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Daylight Horror Disproportionate Retribution The X of Y Evil Laugh Noodle Incident Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Fish out of Water Insistent Terminology Easily Forgiven I Did What I Had to Do Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Exact Words Creative Closing Credits Artistic License – Military No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane True Companions Fatal Flaw Artistic License – Biology Last-Name Basis Film Series Death Glare The Hero Dies Abusive Parents Race Against the Clock Manic Pixie Dream Girl Brother–Sister Incest Badass in a Nice Suit No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Historical Villain Upgrade Laughing Mad Dressing as the Enemy Artistic License – Law Crazy-Prepared Red Eyes, Take Warning Tempting Fate It Can Think Call-Back Crazy Jealous Guy Rule of Funny Take That! Awesome, but Impractical As the Good Book Says... Advertised Extra Dual Wielding Captain Ersatz Death by Sex Get Out! Country Matters Rape as Drama This Is Gonna Suck Evil vs. Evil Running Gag Peek-a-Boo Corpse Offscreen Teleportation Ms. Fanservice Bi the Way One-Man Army Take a Third Option Humans Are Bastards Real Life Alas, Poor Villain Armor-Piercing Question Truth in Television Redemption Equals Death Homage Kick the Dog Nothing Is Scarier Retcon Vampire Fiction Catch-Phrase Those Two Bad Guys My God, What Have I Done? Make It Look Like an Accident Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Vomit Discretion Shot "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Animal Title Index Slasher Movie Adaptational Heroism 20 Minutes into the Future Needs Wiki Magic Love Epic Movie The Cavalry Eyepatch of Power Off with His Head! Love at First Sight Corrupt Corporate Executive Cluster F-Bomb Evil Plan You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Due to the Dead Refuge in Audacity Unusually Uninteresting Sight Children Are Innocent "The Reason You Suck" Speech Wham Line Expy Accidental Murder Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Adaptational Badass Earn Your Happy Ending Bait-and-Switch From Bad to Worse Gone Horribly Right Villainous Breakdown Cat Fight Biopic Casting Gag Bloodless Carnage Police are Useless Fanservice Four-Temperament Ensemble The '70s Papa Wolf Hong Kong Films One-Word Title Mr. Fanservice Overprotective Dad Rated M for Manly The Vamp Enemy Mine Spell My Name with an "S" Driven to Suicide What Happened to the Mouse? Disguised in Drag It's Personal Vacation Films Improbable Aiming Skills Very Loosely Based on a True Story Meaningful Echo Mad Scientist Eureka Moment Boom, Headshot! Chekhov's Skill Humiliation Conga The Dragon Curb-Stomp Battle Department of Redundancy Department Be Careful What You Wish For Scenery Gorn Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bald of Evil Blackmail Star-Crossed Lovers Broken Pedestal Psycho for Hire More Dakka Never Found the Body Zombie Stories Hero of Another Story Authority Equals Asskicking Gainax Ending Heroes Want Redheads Parental Incest Anti-Hero Anyone Can Die Killed Mid-Sentence Even Evil Has Loved Ones Loads and Loads of Characters Does Not Like Shoes Those Wacky Nazis The Reveal Plucky Comic Relief Hypocrite He Knows Too Much Evil Counterpart Mystery and Detective Films French Films Dirty Cop Camera Abuse Together in Death Affectionate Parody Imagine Spot Pet the Dog Does This Remind You of Anything? Half the Man He Used to Be The Faceless Morality Pet Drives Like Crazy Tranquil Fury The Cameo Bare Your Midriff Attempted Rape Outrun the Fireball Gratuitous English The Lost Lenore Punny Name Bad Boss Developing Doomed Characters Unresolved Sexual Tension Psychopathic Manchild Twist Ending Big Bad Duumvirate Funny Foreigner Gory Discretion Shot Adaptation Dye-Job Male Gaze Defiant to the End Not What It Looks Like Even Evil Has Standards Animal Motifs Failed a Spot Check Dwindling Party In Name Only Major Injury Underreaction Narrator Mythology Gag Final Girl Darkest Hour Interrupted Suicide Empathic Environment Monumental Damage Cloudcuckoolander Author Avatar Brick Joke Hair-Trigger Temper Not So Stoic The Stinger The Ghost Really Gets Around Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dark and Troubled Past Serial Killer Antagonist Title Big Brother Instinct Facial Horror Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bloodier and Gorier Abhorrent Admirer Chekhov's Gunman Fun with Acronyms Hoist by His Own Petard Extreme Doormat Guns Akimbo Dirty Old Man The Brute Sanity Slippage The Chessmaster Heel Realization Mama Bear Shell-Shocked Veteran You Have Failed Me Determinator Cassandra Truth Cool Old Guy Superhero Shower Scene Call-Forward Broken Aesop Silent Movie Loophole Abuse Ungrateful Bastard Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Celebrity Paradox timeperiod Thriller Disney Death Beta Couple Ascended Extra Anti-Villain Fake Shemp Dark Action Girl "Well Done, Son!" Guy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Would Hit a Girl No OSHA Compliance Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Covers Always Lie The Film of the Book Guile Hero Love Triangle You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Romantic Comedy Drugs Are Bad Five-Man Band In Medias Res Anachronism Stew Same Language Dub Adaptation Expansion Recycled IN SPACE!