Tropescilloscope: Madness Mantra

Insanity leads to constant repetition. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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