Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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