Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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

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