Tropescilloscope: Hair-Trigger Temper

This character gets angry all the time, and about anything. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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