Tropescilloscope: Skewed Priorities

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

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