Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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

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