Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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

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