Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

Worrying about something unimportant instead of what's more important. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Fingore Rich Bitch The Place Mexican Standoff No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The X of Y 20 Minutes into the Future Eyepatch of Power Historical Hero Upgrade Names to Run Away from Really Fast Zombie Stories Broken Aesop The Musical Obfuscating Stupidity Deal with the Devil The Sociopath Anyone Can Die Line-of-Sight Name Boom, Headshot! Dark Reprise As You Know Daylight Horror Scary Black Man Never My Fault All Just a Dream Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Big Damn Heroes An Axe to Grind Diabolus ex Machina Henpecked Husband Adaptation Expansion Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Artistic License – Geography Product Placement The Atoner Death by Sex Not So Different Would Hurt a Child N-Word Privileges Informed Ability Eureka Moment Damsel in Distress I Did What I Had to Do Vomit Discretion Shot Improbable Aiming Skills Darker and Edgier An Arm and a Leg Laser-Guided Karma Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Extremely Short Timespan Heroic Sacrifice Italian Films Naïve Newcomer Fantasy Films Insult Backfire Disappeared Dad I Have Your Wife Heel–Face Turn Didn't Think This Through Karma Houdini Too Dumb to Live Up to Eleven Bar Brawl Demonic Possession Disney Villain Death Ungrateful Bastard Kubrick Stare Attempted Rape Creepy Child Fanservice The Power of Love Wretched Hive Soundtrack Dissonance Amoral Attorney Book-Ends Fatal Family Photo Beauty Is Never Tarnished Trailers Always Spoil Oh, Crap! Hypocrite Cruel and Unusual Death Big Brother Instinct Demoted to Extra Slasher Movie folderlabel Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Badass Boast Peek-a-Boo Corpse Butt-Monkey Cloudcuckoolander Non-Indicative Name Broken Bird Science Fiction Films Defrosting Ice Queen Badass Normal Curb-Stomp Battle My Beloved Smother Police are Useless What You Are in the Dark No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Silent Movie The Vamp Downer Ending Needs Wiki Magic Love Missing Mom Hidden Depths Hope Spot In the Back Hoist by His Own Petard Black Dude Dies First Imagine Spot Black Comedy Rape The Hero The Lancer The Stoner Closed Circle Costume Porn Pragmatic Adaptation Plucky Comic Relief Distracted by the Sexy The Ghost Failed a Spot Check Sassy Black Woman Dutch Angle Character Development Air-Vent Passageway Bad Boss Flashback Token Minority Cool Guns Bloody Hilarious Heroes Want Redheads Break the Haughty Age Lift Adorkable Developing Doomed Characters Manipulative Bastard All There in the Manual Drowning My Sorrows Villain Song Only in It for the Money "The Reason You Suck" Speech Room Full of Crazy Actor Allusion Exactly What It Says on the Tin Pimped-Out Dress Real Life Beta Couple War Is Hell Male Gaze '80s Hair Ominous Latin Chanting Logo Joke Mistaken for Gay Beard of Evil Adaptation Dye-Job Superhero Contrived Coincidence Award-Bait Song "Shaggy Dog" Story Adaptational Attractiveness Intrepid Reporter Jitter Cam Slashed Throat This Is Gonna Suck A Date with Rosie Palms Dropped a Bridge on Him Throwing Your Sword Always Works Dramatic Irony Chiaroscuro Betty and Veronica Retcon Ascended Extra Bland-Name Product Martial Arts Movie Heel Realization Neck Lift Retirony It Can Think Toplessness from the Back Would Hit a Girl Evil Sounds Deep The Voiceless Bloodier and Gorier Parental Incest Hero of Another Story Tagline Frame-Up Victoria's Secret Compartment Cool Car The Chick Badass Bookworm Took a Level in Badass Last-Name Basis Made of Iron Dressing as the Enemy Romantic Comedy Posthumous Character Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Shut Up, Hannibal! Get Out! No OSHA Compliance Cain and Abel Central Theme An Aesop Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Casting Gag Establishing Character Moment Not So Stoic La Résistance Bald of Evil Pretty in Mink Big Eater Babies Ever After Shirtless Scene Gone Horribly Right The Oner Stuff Blowing Up Artistic License – Biology Freeze-Frame Bonus Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hell Is That Noise Animal Title Index Redemption Equals Death Narrator Neck Snap Exact Words Hollywood Darkness The Film of the Book Romantic False Lead Jerkass Has a Point Cluster F-Bomb Asshole Victim Coming-of-Age Story Alpha Bitch Determinator aka: The Determinator No Antagonist From Bad to Worse Brutal Honesty Scare Chord Stepford Smiler Spiteful Spit Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism For the Evulz Dogged Nice Guy Our Zombies Are Different Not Quite Dead Public Domain Feature Films Bond Villain Stupidity Major Injury Underreaction Reality Has No Subtitles Bavarian Fire Drill Conspicuous CG It's Personal Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ragtag Bunch of Misfits "Awesome McCool" Name The '70s Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Riddle for the Ages Catapult Nightmare Break the Cutie Disguised in Drag Bolivian Army Ending Improbable Weapon User Cowboy Cop Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Stylistic Suck Grievous Bottley Harm In Name Only Artistic License – Physics Big Fancy House Call-Forward Body Horror Bad "Bad Acting" Those Two Bad Guys The Bully Four-Temperament Ensemble There Is No Kill Like Overkill Disproportionate Retribution Credits Gag Auto Erotica Never Found the Body Big Bad Duumvirate The Mole Shower Scene Parental Substitute Artistic License – Law Adaptational Badass O.O.C. Is Serious Business Arch-Enemy Green-Eyed Monster Heterosexual Life-Partners Brainless Beauty Genre Shift Really Gets Around Spared by the Adaptation Crazy-Prepared Only Sane Man Continuity Nod You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Big-Bad Ensemble Those Two Guys Sequel Hook The '90s And I Must Scream All Men Are Perverts Death by Adaptation Accidental Murder Older Than They Look Here We Go Again! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Death of a Child True Companions Evil Is Hammy Blood from the Mouth Rated M for Manly Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Ambiguous Ending Taking the Bullet Fate Worse than Death Mystery and Detective Films Karmic Death Artistic License – Gun Safety Awesome, but Impractical BFG Evil Is Petty Department of Redundancy Department Captain Obvious Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Smoking Is Cool Reasonable Authority Figure B-Movie Meaningful Name Humans Are Bastards Protagonist Title Very Loosely Based on a True Story Totally Radical Poor Communication Kills Adapted Out Arranged Marriage Love Triangle Evil vs. Evil Your Cheating Heart Genre Savvy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Five-Man Band Drill Sergeant Nasty Dull Surprise Dramedy Annoying Younger Sibling Actually Pretty Funny Villain Ball I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Immune to Bullets Serial Killer Red Eyes, Take Warning Shown Their Work One-Man Army Smug Snake Antagonist Title Deus ex Machina The Cavalry Even Evil Has Standards Covers Always Lie Title Drop Men Are the Expendable Gender Earn Your Happy Ending Ghost Fiction Pay Evil unto Evil Abusive Parents Funny Foreigner Black Best Friend Bittersweet Ending Evil Counterpart Pragmatic Villainy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Papa Wolf Action Girl You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Adaptation Distillation More Dakka Improvised Weapon Agony of the Feet The Lost Lenore Black Comedy Becoming the Mask Rewatch Bonus The '80s Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Male Frontal Nudity Jump Scare Interrupted Suicide The Ace Animated Credits Opening Ms. Fanservice Danny Peary Cult Movies List Mercy Kill Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Tempting Fate Everyone Has Standards Malevolent Masked Men Punny Name Thriller Put on a Bus Take a Third Option Arc Words Pretty Little Headshots What Happened to the Mouse? Flipping the Bird Car Fu Eldritch Abomination Slasher Smile Chekhov's Gun Adaptational Villainy Idiot Ball Cassandra Truth Nice Hat The Quiet One The Smurfette Principle Drugs Are Bad The Ditz Screw This, I'm Outta Here! One Steve Limit Eiffel Tower Effect Index of Film Westerns Race Against the Clock Call-Back Cool Shades Suddenly SHOUTING! Recycled IN SPACE! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Skewed Priorities Author Appeal Woman Scorned Mood Whiplash Faux Affably Evil One-Word Title Camp Gay Meaningful Background Event Foregone Conclusion Big Applesauce How We Got Here Hooker with a Heart of Gold Police Brutality It Will Never Catch On Ambiguous Disorder Does Not Like Shoes It's All About Me Ambiguously Gay Straight Gay Instant Death Bullet Kill It with Fire Let's Get Dangerous! Empathic Environment Together in Death Handicapped Badass Works Set in World War II Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bullying a Dragon Fun with Acronyms Sexy Discretion Shot Kick the Dog Light Is Not Good Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Vampire Fiction Badass in a Nice Suit Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Chewing the Scenery Fire-Forged Friends Evil Brit Whole Plot Reference Say My Name Reality Is Unrealistic Armor-Piercing Question He Who Fights Monsters As the Good Book Says... Corpsing Offscreen Teleportation What the Hell, Hero? 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Guy Extreme Doormat Anti-Villain Stalker with a Crush Jerk with a Heart of Gold Shell-Shocked Veteran My Greatest Failure Ax-Crazy Dirty Coward Deliberately Monochrome Knife Nut No-Sell Death Seeker Based on a True Story Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Spiritual Successor Paper-Thin Disguise Reality Ensues No Name Given Aside Glance Slap-Slap-Kiss Broken Pedestal And Starring Rule of Funny Worthy Opponent Race Lift Shoot the Shaggy Dog British Films Silence Is Golden Red Oni, Blue Oni Manly Tears Taking You with Me All for Nothing Dissonant Serenity Determinator Scenery Porn Bloodless Carnage Television Movie Index Killed Mid-Sentence Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Dog Bites Back Historical-Domain Character Plot Hole Comically Missing the Point Gold Digger Expy Mad Scientist The Cameo Implacable Man Famous Last Words Laughing Mad Dark Action Girl Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Parental Abandonment Anti-Hero Manchild For Want of a Nail The Dreaded Fish out of Water Berserk Button Bowdlerise Film Noir Index The Reveal Evil Laugh Tranquil Fury Honor Before Reason Bunny-Ears Lawyer Historical Villain Upgrade Well-Intentioned Extremist Badass Longcoat Time Skip Batman Gambit As Himself Calling the Old Man Out Bring My Brown Pants Lock and Load Montage Playing Gertrude "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Gorn Gender Flip Apocalypse How Leitmotif Funny Background Event Adaptation Name Change Hong Kong Films Depraved Bisexual Gainax Ending Bait-and-Switch Lampshade Hanging Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Alcoholic Yandere Fanservice Extra All Girls Want Bad Boys Bury Your Gays Mythology Gag Small Name, Big Ego Once More, with Clarity! Random Events Plot Psychopathic Manchild Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Sports Stories Canadian Movies Hair-Trigger Temper Happily Married Red Herring Grey and Gray Morality Suspiciously Specific Denial Your Head A-Splode Villain Opening Scene Big "NO!" Chase Scene The End... Or Is It? Darkest Hour Visual Pun Beware the Nice Ones Almost Kiss Noodle Incident Big Bad Only a Flesh Wound Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Not Using the "Z" Word Stealth Pun Self-Deprecation Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bond One-Liner Take That! Eye Scream Dies Wide Open Unresolved Sexual Tension Combat Pragmatist Every Car Is a Pinto Dark and Troubled Past Good Is Not Nice Back from the Dead Stock Footage Rule of Cool Author Avatar Loophole Abuse Shipper on Deck Irony Death Glare Aluminum Christmas Trees Music Stories Truth in Television Properly Paranoid Amusing Injuries Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Off with His Head! Rape as Drama You Killed My Father The Bad Guy Wins Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Adult Fear Overly Long Gag Unspoken Plan Guarantee Psycho for Hire Brick Joke Rasputinian Death A.I. Is a Crapshoot Dying Moment of Awesome Composite Character Horror Films Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Rule of Three The Stinger Sacrificial Lion Japanese Films Villainous Breakdown