Tropescilloscope: The Starscream

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

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