Tropescilloscope: Too Dumb to Live

Life-threatening stupidity. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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