Screw This Index, I Have Tropes!

Any trope about actively deciding "screw this" for whatever reason. Most likely, because you have something that can be used to get past the "this" in question. Which tends to be the rules. Most of these trope names are or were based on LittleKuriboh's legendary Screw the rules, I have money! in the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series.

For tropes about the other kind of 'screwing', see Sex Tropes.

Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum!
Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: An elderly character uses the excuse that being a senior citizen means they can be rude to everyone.
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: A character refuses to accept a bribe for moral reasons.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Person avoids punishment for their misdeeds because they're friends with those who have the authority to punish them.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Getting away with your crimes by bribing people.
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: A character uses their powers to get away with breaking the law.
Screw the Rules, I Make Them!; An authority figure believes that they're above the law simply because they're in charge.
Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: A character's good looks enables them to get away with their actions.

Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Someone deliberately defies the rules because they're in a situation where the right thing to do can only be done by breaking the rules.
Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!: A celebrity believes their fame means they can get away with anything.
Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: Everyone believes that the world ending means that laws and rules don't matter anymore and they can now do whatever the hell they want without fear of repercussions.
Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: One team decides it's okay for them to break the rules if the other team has already done so.
Screw the War, We're Partying!
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Character decides to leave so they don't have to get involved with the current situation.

Similar tropes:

Above Good and Evil (alternately: "Screw Right And Wrong, What I'm Doing Is More Important!")

Acceptable Breaks from Reality (alternately: "Screw Research, I'm Taking...")
Acrofatic (alternately: "Screw Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance, I'm More Nimble Than I Look!")
Always Chaotic Evil (alternately: "Screw What's Right, Evil Is My Nature!")
Always Lawful Good (alternately: "Screw Evil, Good Is My Nature!")
Appeal to Force (alternately: "Screw the Rules, I Have Nukes!")
Artistic License (alternately: "Screw Research, I'm Putting In What I Think Is Correct About [blank]")
- Artistic License – Animal Care (if blank is "animal care")
- Artistic License – Astronomy (if blank is "astronomy")
  - Weird Moon (if blank is "the moon")
  - Weird Sun (if blank is "the sun")
- Artistic License – Awards (if blank is "awards")
- Artistic License – Biology (if blank is "biology")
  - Misplaced Vegetation (if blank is "where to put vegetation")
  - Misplaced Wildlife (if blank is "where to put wildlife")
  - Polar Bears and Penguins (alternately "Screw Reality, I'm Putting Polar Bears and Penguins in the Same Place")
  - Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying (if blank is "insects and arachnids")
  - Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying (if blank is "reptiles and amphibians")
  - Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying (if blank is "non-human mammals")
  - Somewhere, an Equestrian Is Crying (if blank is "horses")
- Artistic License – Cars (if blank is "cars")
- Artistic License – Chemistry (if blank is "chemistry")
- Artistic License – Economics (if blank is "economics")
- Artistic License – Education (if blank is "education")
  - Artistic License – University Admissions (if blank is "university admissions")
- Artistic License – Engineering (if blank is "engineering")
- Artistic License – Film Production (if blank is "film production")
- Artistic License – Geography (if blank is "geography")
- Artistic License – Geology (if blank is "geology")
- Artistic License – Gun Safety (if blank is "gun safety")
- Artistic License – History (if blank is "history")
- Artistic License – Law (if blank is "law")
- Artistic License – Linguistics (if blank is "linguistics")
- Artistic License – Martial Arts (if blank is "martial arts")
- Artistic License – Medicine (if blank is "medicine")
- Artistic License – Military (if blank is "military")
- Artistic License – Music (if blank is "music")
- Artistic License – Nuclear Physics (if blank is "nuclear physics")
- Artistic License – Ornithology (if blank is "birds")
- Artistic License – Paleontology (if blank is "extinct organisms")
- Artistic License – Pharmacology (if blank is "pharmacology")
- Artistic License – Physics (if blank is "physics")
- Artistic License – Religion (if blank is "religion")
  - Artistic License – Traditional Christianity (if blank is "traditional Christianity")
- Artistic License – Ships (if blank is "ships")
- Artistic License – Sports (if blank is "sports")
- Artistic License – Statistics (if blank is "statistics")
- Font Anachronism (if blank is "font dating")
- Just Plane Wrong (if blank is "planes")
- Just Train Wrong (if blank is "trains")
- Sadly Mythtaken (if blank is "mythology")
  - Sadly Mythcharacterized (if blank is "how to portray mythological figures")
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale (if blank is "numerical scale of units")
Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance (alternately: "Screw Hidden Depths, What You See Is What You Get!")
Averted Trope (alternately: "Screw That Trope, I'm Not Doing It!")
Ball Index (alternately: "Screw The Plot, The Writer Says [blank] Right Now")
- Advantage Ball (if blank is "I'm Better Than You")
- Conflict Ball (if blank is "We Should Be Fighting")
- Distress Ball (if blank is "I Need Saving")
- Hero Ball (if blank is "The Hero Is An Idiot")
- Idiot Ball (if blank is "I Am An Idiot")
- Jerkass Ball (if blank is "I Should Be A Jerkass")
- Kindness Ball (if blank is "I Should Be Nicer")
- Sanity Ball (if blank is "I Should Be The Sensible One")
- Smart Ball (if blank is "I Should Be The Smart One")
- Snark Ball (if blank is "I Should Be Sarcastic")
- Strawman Ball (if blank is "I Should Be A Straw Character")
- Villain Ball (if blank is "I Should Be Needlessly Petty")
Bankruptcy Barrel (alternately: "Screw You, You Try Wearing Designer Anything In This Economy!")
Black and White Insanity (alternately: "Screw Nuance, Death To All (We Say Is) Evil!")
Black and White Morality (alternately: "Screw Nuance, Morality If Objective!")
Black Sheep (alternately: "Screw Family Values, I'm My Own Person!")
Blue and Orange Morality (alternately: "Screw Your Morality, I Have My Own!")
Brainwashed and Crazy (alternately: "Screw My Will, I Must Obey My Master and Destroy My Friends")
Break the Scientist (alternately: "Screw Impossible Science, This Cannot Be!")
Breather Level (alternately: "Screw Early Game Hell, Let's Have A Green Hill Zone In The Middle!")
By the Power of Grayskull! (alternately: "Screw the Enemies, It's Morphin' Time!")
Cassandra Did It (alternately: "Screw You Cassandra, It's All Your Fault!")
Cassandra Truth (alternately: "Screw You Cassandra, We Don't Believe You!")
Chaotic Evil (alternately: "Screw the Rules, I'm Evil!")
Chaotic Good (alternately: "Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!")
Chaotic Neutral (alternately: "Screw the Rules, I'll Do Whatever I Want!")
Chaotic Stupid (alternately: "Screw Sense, I'll Do Whatever I Want!")
Classic Video Game "Screw You"s (alternately: "Screw You Beating This Game, I Have Difficulty!")
Commander Contrarian (alternately: "Screw You, I Disagree!")
Competitive Balance (alternately: "Screw [low stat(s)], I've Got [high stat(s)]!")
- Fragile Speedster (if low stat(s) is "Defense" and high stat(s) is "Speed")
- Glass Cannon (if low stat(s) is "Defense" and high stat(s) is "Strength")
- Mighty Glacier (if low stat(s) is "Speed" and high stat(s) is "Strength and Defense")
The Complainer Is Always Wrong (alternately: "Screw You Doubter, No One Likes You!")
Crippling Overspecialization (alternately: "Screw You Jack, I'm An Expert In X!")
Cutting the Knot (alternately: "Screw Contemplation, Let's Get Violent!")
Cynicism Catalyst (alternately: "Screw Everything, My Faith Has Been Shattered!")
Dancing on a Bus (alternately: "Screw Safety Concerns, We're Dancing On a Bus!")
Dancing with Myself (alternately: "Screw Dancing With A Partner, I'm Doing It Myself!")
Dangerous Deserter (alternately: "Screw the Army, I'm Leaving My Post!")
Dangerous Forbidden Technique (alternately: "Screw My Safety, I'm Using The Forbidden Power!")
Dangerous 16th Birthday (alternately: "Screw My Safety, I'm Turning Sixteen!")
Deadly Upgrade (alternately: "Screw My Safety, I'm Upgrading My Powers!")
Decon-Recon Switch (alternately: "Screw Genre Deconstruction, We're Going Back To Basics!")
Defied Trope (alternately: "Screw That Trope, I Know How to Stop It!")
Diplomatic Impunity (alternately: "Screw the Laws, I Have Diplomatic Immunity!")
Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery (alternately "Screw Politeness, I'm Disabled!")
Doing In the Scientist (alternately "Screw Science, This Is Magic We're Dealing With!")
Doing In the Wizard (alternately "Screw Magic, There's A Scientific Explanation!")
Doomed Contrarian (alternately: "Screw You Doubter, Time To Die!")
Dungeon Bypass (alternately: "Screw the Maze, I Have Shortcuts!")
Easy Levels, Hard Bosses (alternately: "Screw Green Hill Zone, Let's Throw That One Boss At The Player!")
Easy-Mode Mockery (alternately: "Screw You For Playing On Easy Mode, Here's Your Medal of Dishonor!")
Eldritch Abomination (alternately: "Screw Your Fragile, Human Mind, I'm A(n) [blank] Of Indescribable Terror!")
- Adorable Abomination (if blank is "Cutey-pie")
- Angelic Abomination (if blank is "Angel")
- Animalistic Abomination (if blank is "Animal")
- Botanical Abomination (if blank is "Plant/Mushroom")
- Draconic Abomination (if blank is "Dragon")
- Eldritch Location (if blank is "World")
- Eldritch Starship (if blank is "Spacecraft")
- Humanoid Abomination (if blank is "Human-esque Thing")
- Mechanical Abomination (if blank is "Robot")
- Undead Abomination (if blank is "Zombie")
- Santabomination (if blank is "Lovable Holiday Icon")
Fake Difficulty (alternately: "Screw Being Fair, I Have the Design Document")
Glacier Waif (alternately: "Screw Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance, I'm Tougher Than I Look!")
Goddamned Bats (alternately: "Screw The Goomba, They're Everywhere!")
The Grinch (alternately: "Screw Christmas, I'm Going To Ruin It")
Gravity Is Only a Theory (alternately: "Screw You Gravity, You Don't Exist!")
Grey and Gray Morality (alternately: "Screw Good And Evil, It's More Complicated Than That!")
Grey And Gray Insanity (alternately: "Screw Good And Evil, they're (as we say) just as bad as each other!")
Hard Levels, Easy Bosses (alternately: "Screw That One Level, Let's Throw the Dog a Bone With An Anticlimax Boss!")
Hero with Bad Publicity (alternately: "Screw You Hero, Social Media Before Reason!")
Hollywood Atheist (alternately: "Screw You God, You Don't Exist!")
Hollywood Satanism (alternately: "Screw You God, Satan Is My Co-pilot!")
Home Nudist (alternately: "Screw You, It's My House, I'll (Not) Wear Whatever I Want!")
Honor Before Reason (alternately: "Screw Sense, I Have Principles!")
Hypocrisy Nod (alternately: "Screw You Hypocrite, At Least I Admit It!")
Inverted Trope (alternately: "Screw That Trope, I'm Doing The Opposite")
I Reject Your Reality (alternately: "Screw You Obvious Facts, Prepare To Be Ignored!")
It's All About Me (alternately: "Screw All Of You, I'm More Important!")
Kangaroo Pouch Ride (alternately "Screw the Aussies, I'm Riding the Roo")
Kill the God (alternately: "Screw You God, Time To Die!")
Lawful Evil (alternately: "Screw What's Right, I Have Rules!")
Lawful Good (alternately: "Screw Evil, I Have Principles!")
Lawful Stupid (alternately: "Screw Sense, I Have Rules!")
Leeroy Jenkins (alternately: "Screw Teamwork, Attack! Attack! Attack!")
Lightning Bruiser (alternately: "Screw Competitive Balance, I'm Fast, Strong and Durable!")
Loophole Abuse (alternately: "Screw The Rules, I Have Other Rules!")
Love Overrides the Law (alternately: "Screw the Law, I'm In Love!")
Magic Realism (alternately: "Screw The Power Fantasy, Magic Is Everywhere And Not A Big Deal!")
Male Frontal Nudity (alternately: "Screw Male Gaze, Women Need Beefcake!")
Master of All (alternately: "Screw You Jack, I'm Good At Everything!")
Murder Is the Best Solution (alternately: "Screw The Gadfly, Let's Put Them All Out of My Misery!")
Miser Advisor (alternately: "Screw the Rules, I Want the Money!")
Nay-Theist (alternately: "Screw You God, I Ain't Worshipping You!")
Neutral Evil (alternately: "Screw What's Right, I Want the Money!")
Neutral Good (alternately: "Screw The Rules, Nobody Has To Follow Them!")
New Rules as the Plot Demands (formerly "Screw the Rules, I Have Plot!")
Nintendo Hard (alternately: "Screw Easy Mode, Players Need Challenge!")
No-Sell (alternately: "Screw Your Power, I Have Toughness")
Omnicidal Maniac (alternately: "Screw All Of You, Everything Must Go!")
"Open!" Says Me (alternately: "Screw The Lock, Get The Battering Ram!")
Queer as Tropes (alternately: "Screw Straight/Cis Norms, [blank] in the LGBT+ Community!")
- Bi the Way (if blank is "...You Can Like Men and Women...")
- Butch Lesbian (if blank is "...Gay Women Can Be Masculine Too...")
- Camp Gay (if blank is "...Gay Men Can Be Effeminate...")
- Lipstick Lesbian (if blank is "...Gay Women Can Be Effeminate...")
- Manly Gay (if blank is "...Gay Men Can Be Masculine Too...")
- Straight Gay (if blank is "...Not All Men Are Camp Gay...")
Ptero Soarer (alternately "Screw the T-Rex, I'm Flying the Pterosaur")
Rage Quit (alternately: "Screw This Game, I'mma Goin' Home!")
Raptor Attack (alternately "Screw Accuracy, I'm Giving the Raptors Feathers")
Resign in Protest (alternatively: "Screw Your Decision/Orders, I'm Not Compromising My Morals For You!")
Revenge Before Reason (alternately: "Screw Sense, I Will Have My Vengeance!")
Right Through His Pants (alternately: "Screw Her, Obstructive Denim Be Damned!")
The Scapegoat (alternately: "Screw You Random Person, It's All Your Fault!")
Screw Destiny (", I Have Free Will")
Screwed by the Network (alternately: "Screw the Show, The Network's Doing Just That!")
Screw the Electric Bill! (", I Don't Care!")
Screw You, Elves! (", I Only Respond to Tact!")
Screw Your Ultimatum! (", I Can Beat You!")
Straw Nihilist (alternately: "Screw Everything, None Of It Matters!")
Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids (alternately: "Screw My Parents' Rules, I Can Do What I Want!")
Stupid Evil (alternately: "Screw Sense, I'm Evil!")
Stupid Good (alternately: "Screw Sense, I'm Doing What's Right!")
Stupid Neutral (alternately: "Screw Sense, I Don't Care!")
That One Index (alternately: "Screw This [blank], I'mma Goin' Home!")
- Demonic Spiders (if blank is "Mook")
- Scrappy Mechanic (if blank is "Game Mechanic")
- That One Achievement (if blank is "Achievement System")
- That One Attack (if blank is "Attack")
- That One Boss (if blank is "Boss Battle")
- That One Disadvantage (if blank is "Weaksauce Weakness")
- That One Level (if blank is "Level")
- That One Player (if blank is "Other Guy")
- That One Puzzle (if blank is "Stock Puzzle")
- That One Rule (if blank is "Rule")
- That One Side Quest (if blank is "Mini-Game")
True Art (alternately: "Screw [blank]...")
- True Art Is Ancient (if blank is "Modern Art")
- True Art Is Angsty (if blank is "Happy Pictures")
- True Art Is Boring (if blank is "The Entertainment Industry")
- True Art Is Incomprehensible (if blank is "Objective Narrative")
True Neutral (alternately: "Screw the Conflict, I'm Staying Out Of It")
Unskilled, but Strong (alternately: "Screw Fancy Techniques, HULK SMASH!")
Valentine's Day Vitriol (alternately: "Screw Valentine's Day, I will go out of my way to ignore it/complain about it.")
Victory by Endurance (alternately: "Screw Strength and Skill, I Can Take It!")
Violence Is the Only Option (alternately: "Screw Pacifism, Let's Put Them All Out of My Misery!")
Weak, but Skilled (alternately: "Screw Power, I Have Fancy Techniques!")
What Is Evil? (alternately: "Screw You Hero, Morality Is Arbitrary!")
White Sheep (alternately: "Screw Family Values, I'm Doing What's Right")
Windmill Political (alternately: "Screw You Non-Existent Enemy, Time To Die!")
Yet Another Stupid Death (alternately: "Screw The Player, It's Their Own Fault They Died!")
You Gotta Have Blue Hair (alternately "Screw Biology, I Have Green Hair!")