Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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