Tropescilloscope: Shell-Shocked Veteran

A war veteran suffering from PTSD. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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