Tropescilloscope: Anguished Declaration of Love

Love Confession + Angst. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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