Tropescilloscope: Adult Fear

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

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