Tropescilloscope: Eldritch Abomination

A monster that is surreal and incomprehensible in nature. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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