"Fine, judge all you want to. But—married a lesbian; left a man at the altar; fell in love with a gay ice dancer; threw a girl’s wooden leg in a fire; lives in a box!"
— Monica (to Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, and Chandler, respectively), Friends
Here is an index about characters calling out other characters for doing something wrong or at least doing something that displeases them.
Compare Insult Tropes, and Index of Shame. Contrast Admiration Tropes and Compliment Tropes.
Tropes:
- Anger Born of Worry: A character chews out another for getting themselves in danger.
- Anguished Outburst: A character bitterly and sadly calls out on others due to a misfortune involving one or both parties.
- Arson, Murder, and Admiration: One villain starts listing the flaws of the other villain, then complimenting their merits.
- Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: A character chews out another for all they did wrong and then admires them for something they did right.
- Calling the Old Man Out: When a character tells off a parental figure.
- Calling the Young Man Out: When a parent or parental figure tells off their child.
- Calling Out for Not Calling: A character is called out for not getting in touch with another character.
- Can't Take Criticism: When a character doesn't take the rebuke very well.
- Did You Actually Believe...?: Mocking your enemy for having been foolish enough to trust you, or naive enough to think their plan would stop you.
- Did You Think I Can't Feel?: A character has emotional torment, even if they don't usually express it.
- Even Evil Has Standards: A villain calls out a hero or another villain for doing misdeeds that even they are disgusted by.
- Fighting Your God: A character or group rebukes their own divine patrons or objects or worship.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Someone is called out for trying to use a Freudian Excuse in order to justify themselves and/or their actions.
- Kirk Summation: The hero verbally deconstructs the villain.
- No Sympathy for Grudgeholders: Getting called out for holding a grudge towards another character or being vengeful.
- Punished for Sympathy: When a character gets called out for sympathizing or showing kindness to someone who is less deserving of it.
- Quit Your Whining: Telling a character to stop complaining.
- Rage Against the Heavens: Character verbally abuses the powers that be, whoever or whatever they are.
- Rage Against the Mentor: The protege calls out their mentor.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The character makes a speech that lists the flaws of another.
- Revenge Is Not Justice: The character is called out for using their quest for revenge to justify hurting others.
- Sarcastic Well Wishing: "Congratulating" a character for a "success", warning that their "victory" will be a Pyrrhic one.
- Screw You, Elves!: Calling out the Superior Species.
- Shaming the Mob: When a character calls out a mob for their actions.
- Shamed by a Mob: When a character gets called out by a mob for their actions.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: A hero rebukes a villain's attempt to deconstruct them.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: Villain brushes aside the hero's Kirk Summation.
- Swiper, No Swiping!: Getting the villain to cease their misdeeds by simply telling them to stop.
- That Liar Lies: A person is reprimanded for lying.
- This Cannot Be!: Refusing to accept defeat at the hands of the character who just handed your butt to you on a plate.
- This Is Unforgivable!: When a character calls another character out for something they can't forgive and lets them know about it in no uncertain terms.
- Vigilante Injustice: When cops arrest the vigilante and call them out for executing a criminal or murdering an innocent suspect under the belief that they were guilty.
- What Have You Done for Me Lately?: A character has helped another character several times in the past. In spite of this, the latter is adamant that the former still owes him a favor.
- What the Hell, Hero?: When a hero gets called out for a morally questionable action.
- What the Hell, Player?: When video game players get called out for their bad deeds.
- What Were You Thinking?: A character does a stupid thing that goes horribly wrong. Character B asks the reason behind such stupidity.
- You Bastard!: A character chastises the audience for enjoying what they shouldn't enjoy.
- You're Insane!: A character announces how insane he/she finds another character to be and instantly goes to stop them.
- You Monster!: When someone is called a monster as a way of pointing out to the audience how evil another character finds him/her to be.
