Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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