Tropescilloscope: Too Dumb to Live

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

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