Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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

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