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!: A character doesn't amass knowledge and logic through reading, critical thinking, and otherwise engaging with material when there's an easier way.
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!: Characters have fun despite war and the threats to personal safety and resource constraints that go with it.

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 Nimbler 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")
  - Artistic License – Pharmacology (if blank is "pharmacology")
  - Marijuana Is LSD (if blank is "what marijuana does to the mind")
  - Spice Rack Panacea (if blank is "herbal medicine")
  - Adam and Eve Plot (if blank is "genetic variability")
  - Anatomically Impossible Sex (if blank is "how sex works")
  - CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable (if blank is "how CPR works")
  - Longest Pregnancy Ever (if blank is "pregnancy")
  - 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")
  - Every Car Is a Pinto (if blank is "how cars can get destroyed")
  - Gasoline Lasts Forever (if blank is "the shelf life of gasoline")
- 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 – Child Labor Laws (if blank is "child labor laws")
- 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")
- Retroactive Idiot Ball (if blank is "Later Plot Developments Rendered My Actions Illogical")
- 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 Comedy (alternately: "Screw Sensitivity, The Writer Thinks Dark Topics Can Be Hilarious Too!")
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 Skepticism, This Cannot Be!")
Breather Level (alternately: "Screw Early Game Hell, Let's Have a Green Hill Zone in the Middle!")
Brutal Honesty (alternately: "Screw Sensitivity, I'm Telling the Truth!")
Bunny-Ears Lawyer (alternatively: "Screw Formalities, I'm Good at What I Do!")
By the Power of Grayskull! (alternately: "Screw You, Villains, It's Morphin' Time!")
The Caligula (alternately: "Screw Sense, I'm in Power!")
Cassandra Did It (alternately: "Screw You Cassandra, It's All Your Fault!")
Cassandra Truth (alternately: "Screw You Cassandra, We Don't Believe You!")
Caustic Critic (alternately: "Screw Being Polite, I'm Using Brutal Honesty!")
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!")
Creation Myth (alternatively: "Screw You Science, Our Deities Created Everything!")
Crippling Overspecialization (alternately: "Screw You Jack, I'm an Expert in X!")
Cutting Corners (alternately: "Screw Spending Money, I Need to Save Some!")
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, I'm...")
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!")
Despotism Justifies the Means (alternatively: "Screw the Results and Effects on Others, I Want to Rule.")
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!")
Did You Just Index Cthulhu? (alternately: "Screw You, Eldritch Abomination, [blank]")
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? (if blank is "...Let's Be Polite To Each Other!")
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? (if blank is "...You Suck!")
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? (if blank is "...Let's Partake in Forbidden Love!")
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? (if blank is "...I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass!")
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? (if blank is "...Did You Actually Believe I Wasn't Gonna Trick You?")
- Hijacking Cthulhu (if blank is "...I Have Mind-Control Powers!")
- Staring Down Cthulhu (if blank is "...I Will Stare You into Defeat!")
- Wowing Cthulhu (if blank is "...I'm Gonna Show You I'm Awesome!")
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!")
Draft Dodging (alternately: "Screw Conscription, I Don't Wanna 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")
Exploitation Film (alternately: "Screw You Film Critics, Let's Get Weird!")
Evil Debt Collector (alternately: "Screw Being Polite, Pay Your Damn Bills!")
Fake Difficulty (alternately: "Screw Being Fair, I Have the Design Document!")
For Great Justice (alternately: "Screw Reasoning, I'm Gonna Save the Day!")
For the Evulz (alternately: "Screw Reasoning, I'm Evil!")
Frivolous Lawsuit (alternately: "Screw Reasoning, I'm Gonna Sue Ya!")
Glacier Waif (alternately: "Screw Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance, I'm Tougher Than I Look!")
Goddamned Bats (alternately: "Screw The Goomba, They're Everywhere!")
Good Shepherd (alternately: "Screw Being A Sinister Minister, God Wants Me to Do Good!")
The Grinch (alternately: "Screw Christmas, I'm Going to Ruin It")
Grandfather Clause (alternately: "Screw Modernization, We're Staying with Our Tradition!")
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!")
Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper (alternately: "Screw You Grim Reaper, I'm Gonna Live!")
Hard Levels, Easy Bosses (alternately: "Screw That One Level, Let's Throw the Dog a Bone with an Anticlimax Boss!")
He Panned It, Now He Sucks! (alternately: "Screw You, Caustic Critic, You Insulted the Sacred Cow!")
Hero with Bad Publicity (alternately: "Screw You, Hero, Social Media Before Reason!")
Holier Than Thou (alternately: "Screw the Good Shepherd, We Think He's An Asshole!")
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!")
I Have Boobs, You Must Obey! (alternatively: "Screw the Rules...")
Inverted Trope (alternately: "Screw That Trope, I'm Doing the Opposite")
I Reject Your Reality (alternately: "Screw You 'The Obvious', Prepare to Be Ignored!")
It's All About Me (alternately: "Screw All of You, I'm More Important!")
It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars (alternately: "Screw You, Critics, It Doesn't Need to Be True Art to Be Entertaining!")
Jossed (alternately: "Screw Your Fan Theories, Here's the Truth!")
Just Eat Gilligan (alternately: "Screw Easy Solutions to the Plot, Status Quo Is God!")
Just Following Orders (alternately "Screw Taking Responsibility, I Was Told to Do It!")
Just Giving Orders (alternately "Screw Taking Responsibility, I Only Told Them to Do It!")
Kangaroo Court (alternately: "Screw Evidence, Logic, and Procedure, We've Decided You Are Guilty!")
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!")
- My Rule-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours (alternately: "Screw Your Loophole Abuse, I Have a Rule That Overrides It!")
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!")
Monster Clown (alternately: "Screw Spreading Happiness, I'm Gonna Kill 'Em All!")
Murder Is the Best Solution (alternately: "Screw the Big Bad, 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!")
Non-Ironic Clown (alternately: "Screw Being Evil, I'm a Good Clown!")
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 and Research, [blank] in the LGBTQ+ Community!")
- All Gays Love Theater (if blank is "...All Gay Men and Women Love Theater...")
- The Bear (if blank is "...Every Man is Hairy and Big...")
- Butch Lesbian (if blank is "...Gay Women Can Be Masculine Too...")
- Camp Gay (if blank is "...Gay Men Can Be Effeminate...")
- Depraved Homosexual (if blank is "...All Gay Men Are Psychotic...")
- Lesbian Jock (if blank is "...All Gay Women Are Into Sports...")
- Lipstick Lesbian (if blank is "...Gay Women Can Be Effeminate...")
- Manly Gay (if blank is "...Gay Men Can Be Masculine Too...")
- Performance Artist (if blank is "...All Gay Men Are Performance Artists...")
- Straight Gay (if blank is "...Not All Men Are Camp Gay...")
- The Twink (if blank is "...All Men Are Thin and Effeminate...")
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!")
Sad Clown (alternately: "Screw Hidden Depths, I Just Gotta Keep Smiln'!")
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!")
Shrug of God (alternately: "Screw Word of God, I Don't Know the Answers!")
Social Media Before Reason (alternately: "Screw The End of the World as We Know It, Let Me Take a Selfie!")
Subculture of the Week (alternately: "Screw Research, I'm Going to Write What I Think is True About Certain Subcultures!")
Status Quo Is God (alternately: "Screw Change, the Writer Says We Don't Need It!")
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")
There Are No Therapists (alternately: "Screw Getting Therapy...")
They Changed It, Now It Sucks! (alternately: "Screw Accepting Change, It Sucks Now!")
True Art (alternately: "Screw [blank], That Can't Be Good Art")
- 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/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!")
Witch Hunt (alternately: "Screw the Presumption of Innocence, We're Gonna Root Out (What We Deem to Be) Evil!")
Xenofiction (alternately: "Screw Humans, Let's Have Animals Or Aliens Be the Stars!")
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 My Own Hair Color!")