Tropescilloscope: Too Dumb to Live

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

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