Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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