Tropescilloscope: Break the Haughty

Arrogant asshole goes through hell. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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