Tropescilloscope: Adult Fear

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

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