Tropescilloscope: Too Dumb to Live

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

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