Tropescilloscope: Too Dumb to Live

Life-threatening stupidity. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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