Tropescilloscope: The Starscream

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

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