Tropescilloscope: Laser-Guided Karma

When bad things happen to bad people at opportune times. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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