Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

Misfortunes inspire evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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