Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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