Tropescilloscope: Adult Fear

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

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