Tropescilloscope: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

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