Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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