Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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