Tropescilloscope: Mood Whiplash

The story has intense, sudden mood swings. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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