Tropescilloscope: Adult Fear

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

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