Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

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

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