Tropescilloscope: Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?

Someone's crippling phobia. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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