Tropescilloscope: Unwitting Instigator of Doom

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

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