Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

This character gets angry all the time, and about anything. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Slashed Throat Retired Badass Mooks Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Agony of the Feet Dutch Angle "The Reason You Suck" Speech Artistic License – Geography Faux Affably Evil '80s Hair The End... Or Is It? Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Video Credits Black Comedy Rape Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Belligerent Sexual Tension Sir Swears-a-Lot Breaking the Fourth Wall The Power of Love Hong Kong Films