Tropescilloscope: Deal with the Devil

A deal that grants you your heart's desire, at a horrible price. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Those Two Bad Guys Say My Name Handicapped Badass Freudian Excuse As You Know Based on a True Story Bunny-Ears Lawyer Black Comedy Rape Cowboy Cop My Greatest Failure Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Man on Fire Age Lift Bury Your Gays Beta Couple Auto Erotica Big Damn Heroes Be Careful What You Wish For Composite Character Evil Brit Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Tagline Big Fancy House Aside Glance Bullying a Dragon Smoking Is Cool "Well Done, Son!" Guy Affectionate Parody Rich Bitch He Knows Too Much Real Life Writes the Plot Catapult Nightmare Oh, Crap! Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Off with His Head! Non-Indicative Name Kids Are Cruel Demonic Possession No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Informed Ability Victoria's Secret Compartment Soundtrack Dissonance Punny Name Evil Laugh Cloudcuckoolander Empathic Environment Early Installment Weirdness Jerkass Translation Convention Friend to All Children Mystery and Detective Films Meaningful Background Event Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dirty Cop Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Fanservice Extra Bittersweet Ending Russian Films Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Chessmaster Anyone Can Die Men Are the Expendable Gender Bring My Brown Pants Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Adaptation Name Change Let's Get Dangerous! 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Continuity Nod Eldritch Abomination Reckless Gun Usage Wicked Cultured Retcon Woman Scorned 20 Minutes into the Future Shown Their Work It Can Think Captain Obvious Anachronism Stew Arch-Enemy Genre Throwback Thriller Psycho for Hire War Is Hell Eye Scream May–December Romance Major Injury Underreaction Developing Doomed Characters Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds "The Reason You Suck" Speech Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Wham Shot The '70s Fire-Forged Friends Not Quite Dead Bait-and-Switch Five-Man Band Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Rousing Speech Would Hit a Girl Star-Crossed Lovers Gender Flip Dutch Angle Parental Neglect Butt-Monkey Dark Is Not Evil Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Fatal Family Photo Would Hurt a Child More Dakka Determinator Suspiciously Similar Substitute Antagonist Title Double-Meaning Title Insistent Terminology Depraved Bisexual Curse Cut Short The Stoner Psychopathic Manchild Animal Motifs Properly Paranoid Fish out of Water Frame-Up Curb-Stomp Battle This Is Gonna Suck Refuge in Audacity Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Public Domain Feature Films Adult Fear Spell My Name with an "S" Cool Old Lady One Steve Limit Superhero Naked People Are Funny Evil Counterpart Failed a Spot Check Dogged Nice Guy It's Personal Recycled IN SPACE! Super Strength Sequel Escalation Maybe Ever After Gainax Ending Sexy Discretion Shot Jerkass Has a Point Guile Hero Diabolus ex Machina Evil-Detecting Dog Same Language Dub Decoy Protagonist The Stinger Hate Sink Knife Nut Blackmail For the Evulz Romantic Comedy Pretty in Mink The Sociopath Vomit Indiscretion Shot Amusing Injuries Hypocritical Humor Works Set in World War II A Father to His Men Death by Adaptation Hollywood Darkness The Ditz Credits Gag Big Applesauce Adults Are Useless Disappeared Dad Corrupt Corporate Executive Disguised in Drag As Long as It Sounds Foreign Better to Die than Be Killed You Have Failed Me Insane Troll Logic Ascended Extra Canon Foreigner Accidental Murder Deliberate Values Dissonance The Atoner Visual Pun Not So Different Make It Look Like an Accident Awesome, but Impractical The Film of the Book Damsel in Distress Historical-Domain Character Only a Flesh Wound The Lancer All Just a Dream Take That! 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Is Serious Business Action Girl Department of Redundancy Department Imagine Spot Adaptational Attractiveness Almost Kiss Pretty Little Headshots Unusual Euphemism Card-Carrying Villain Brick Joke Kick the Son of a Bitch Body Horror German Films Mama Bear Heel Realization Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Blood from the Mouth Bare Your Midriff Married to the Job Mistaken for Gay Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Drowning My Sorrows Not So Above It All Red Oni, Blue Oni Have a Gay Old Time The Alleged Car Only One Name Hypocrite Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy All for Nothing Big Brother Instinct From Nobody to Nightmare Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Domestic Abuse Hooker with a Heart of Gold Artistic License – History Leave the Camera Running Dumb Blonde Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Chick Twist Ending Light Is Not Good Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Protagonist Title Affably Evil Leitmotif Your Head A-Splode Outrun the Fireball Wrong Genre Savvy Catch-Phrase Training Montage Silent Movie Does Not Like Shoes The Power of Love Scenery Gorn Did Not Get the Girl Here We Go Again! An Axe to Grind Anti-Hero Sequel Hook She's Got Legs Early-Bird Cameo And I Must Scream Aluminum Christmas Trees Insult Backfire Blood Knight Enemy Mine I'm a Humanitarian The Musical Fatal Flaw Death Glare Rewatch Bonus Lampshade Hanging Paper-Thin Disguise Brother–Sister Incest Foregone Conclusion Shower Scene Heroic Sacrifice Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Everyone Has Standards Bald of Evil Revenge Once More, with Clarity! Dirty Coward The Dreaded Male Gaze Redemption Equals Death The Brute Creator Cameo Dropped a Bridge on Him Line-of-Sight Name Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Expository Hairstyle Change Bloodier and Gorier Despair Event Horizon Morality Pet Sanity Slippage Badass in a Nice Suit Hong Kong Films Bad Boss Adorkable Meet Cute The Mole Malevolent Masked Men Plot Hole Jitter Cam Getting Crap Past the Radar Totally Radical Military and Warfare Films Establishing Character Moment Tap on the Head Spared by the Adaptation Disproportionate Retribution Sassy Black Woman Disney Death Fan Disservice Foil Shoot the Shaggy Dog Ironic Echo Ripped from the Headlines Shirtless Scene '80s Hair Video Credits Covers Always Lie No Antagonist Unreliable Narrator Brutal Honesty In Medias Res Mad Scientist MacGuffin I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Bad Guy Wins Deal with the Devil Ambiguously Gay Laughing Mad Took a Level in Jerkass Rated M for Manly Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Title Drop Bloodless Carnage BFG Armor-Piercing Question Eureka Moment Time Skip Television Movie Index Silence Is Golden Beard of Evil Rule of Funny La Résistance Drill Sergeant Nasty Gorn Australian Movies Together in Death Bland-Name Product British Films Re-Cut Adaptational Badass Race Lift Stepford Smiler Logo Joke Manipulative Bastard Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Jerk with a Heart of Gold Final Girl Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Never Found the Body Deconstruction Tempting Fate Badass Boast Fantastic Racism Sole Survivor Genre Savvy Adaptation Dye-Job You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Last-Name Basis Lock and Load Montage Anachronic Order Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Drives Like Crazy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Film Noir A God Am I Bi the Way Didn't Think This Through Chekhov's Gun Improbable Weapon User The Smart Guy Missing Mom "Awesome McCool" Name Pay Evil unto Evil Ass Shove Intergenerational Friendship Reality Is Unrealistic Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Evil vs. Evil Author Appeal Match Cut The Casanova Those Wacky Nazis Manchild Historical Villain Upgrade Straight Gay Politically Incorrect Villain Eyepatch of Power Made of Iron Anguished Declaration of Love Needs Wiki Magic Love Spanner in the Works Get Out! 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The Great Depression Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Country Matters Sacrificial Lion I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Authority Equals Asskicking The Big Guy Poor Communication Kills No Ending Artistic License – Biology Well-Intentioned Extremist Asshole Victim Motor Mouth A Date with Rosie Palms Alliterative Name The Oner What You Are in the Dark Irony The '50s Crazy-Prepared No OSHA Compliance Costume Porn Cruel and Unusual Death The '60s Every Car Is a Pinto Only in It for the Money Femme Fatale And Starring Green-Eyed Monster How We Got Here Psychological Thriller Artistic License – Gun Safety Word of God Artistic License – Law Central Theme The Smurfette Principle Taking the Bullet Police are Useless The '80s Good Is Not Nice Car Fu Death by Sex No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fourth Date Marriage NO INDOOR VOICE Dramedy The Hero Dies Darker and Edgier Abusive Parents Rule of Three Soft Glass Grievous Bottley Harm Improbable Aiming Skills Creative Closing Credits Conspicuous CG Hair-Trigger Temper Bad "Bad Acting" From Bad to Worse Black and Gray Morality Broken Bird Not So Stoic Offscreen Moment of Awesome Attempted Rape Dissonant Serenity It Will Never Catch On Animal Title Index Bowdlerise Ax-Crazy Flashback Award-Bait Song Unspoken Plan Guarantee Kick the Dog He Who Fights Monsters Agony of the Feet Hoist by His Own Petard Pragmatic Adaptation Call-Back My Beloved Smother Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Bully Comically Missing the Point Dual Wielding Idiot Ball Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Remake Bottomless Magazines Adaptation Expansion Big Bad Duumvirate Death of a Child Downer Ending Death by Irony Amoral Attorney Cassandra Truth Woman in White Noodle Incident Narrator Stuff Blowing Up What Happened to the Mouse? Trailers Always Spoil In Name Only Race Against the Clock You Killed My Father Peek-a-Boo Corpse Daylight Horror Small Name, Big Ego Humiliation Conga Posthumous Character "Shaggy Dog" Story Scary Black Man Fingore Fiery Redhead Closed Circle Our Vampires Are Different Whole Plot Reference Ominous Latin Chanting Instant Death Bullet Reality Ensues Mr. Fanservice Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hero of Another Story Leaning on the Fourth Wall