Tropescilloscope: Adult Fear

Threats and fears that most adults would worry about in real life. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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