Tropescilloscope: This Is Gonna Suck

Oh, Crap! plus Casual Danger Dialogue. Usually Played for Laughs. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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