Tropescilloscope: Unwitting Instigator of Doom

The meager actions of this character have caused a significant disaster. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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