Tropescilloscope: Screw This, I'm Outta Here!

Character abandons their role in the middle of their service out of frustration or fear. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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