Tropescilloscope: Cat Scare

Yipe! *pause* Oh, whew; just the cat. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Intergenerational Friendship Black Dude Dies First He Who Fights Monsters Dramedy Accidental Murder Bad Boss Imagine Spot Creepy Child Retcon I Need a Freaking Drink Cain and Abel Fire-Forged Friends Once More, with Clarity! Spared by the Adaptation You Killed My Father Age Lift Bland-Name Product Beta Couple Demonic Possession Idiot Ball Dark Reprise Calling the Old Man Out Crapsack World She's Got Legs Take That! The Remake The '70s Shipper on Deck "The Reason You Suck" Speech Chiaroscuro Action Survivor Laughing Mad timeperiod Victoria's Secret Compartment Television Movie Index Last-Name Basis Anachronism Stew Ironic Echo Heroic BSoD My Greatest Failure Made of Explodium Mr. Exposition Spiritual Successor Heel–Face Turn Peek-a-Boo Corpse Evil Plan The Mafia Based on a True Story Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sexy Discretion Shot And Starring Important Haircut Red Oni, Blue Oni Cool Old Lady Black Comedy Really Gets Around Soundtrack Dissonance Killed Mid-Sentence Novelization Manly Tears Smoking Is Cool Wham Shot Title Drop The Stoner Jerk with a Heart of Gold Curse Cut Short Dirty Cop Getting Crap Past the Radar Red Right Hand Our Zombies Are Different Wham Line Cat Fight Everyone Has Standards I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Epic Fail Bloodier and Gorier Action Prologue Reckless Gun Usage The Casanova In Name Only The Bad Guy Wins Immune to Bullets Vomit Indiscretion Shot "Awesome McCool" Name Suspiciously Specific Denial Cold-Blooded Torture Mundane Made Awesome Military and Warfare Films Parental Incest Domestic Abuse There Is No Kill Like Overkill Film Series Sinister Minister '80s Hair Ascended Extra Betty and Veronica A Minor Kidroduction Works Set in World War II Adapted Out Male Gaze No-Sell Vitriolic Best Buds Cool Old Guy Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fatal Family Photo Jerk Jock Half the Man He Used to Be Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cool Shades Defrosting Ice Queen Damsel in Distress Bound and Gagged Diabolus ex Machina Nothing Is Scarier Morality Pet Sci-Fi Horror Slasher Movie Big Damn Heroes Nice Hat The Dreaded Annoying Younger Sibling True Companions Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Small Name, Big Ego Wounded Gazelle Gambit Pretty in Mink Disguised in Drag Framing Device Cassandra Truth Historical-Domain Character Light Is Not Good Madness Mantra Gainax Ending Stepford Smiler Rule of Symbolism Real Life Writes the Plot Back from the Dead Happily Married No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Overprotective Dad Eagleland An Axe to Grind Freudian Excuse Music Stories Shoot the Shaggy Dog Took a Level in Jerkass Death Seeker Scenery Porn Thriller Foregone Conclusion Superhero Silent Movie As Long as It Sounds Foreign Fainting Fourth Date Marriage Credits Gag Anti-Villain Captain Obvious Gratuitous English The '50s German Films Adaptation Expansion Book-Ends Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Say My Name Bloody Hilarious Badass Grandpa Amoral Attorney Fatal Flaw The Load The Voiceless Your Head A-Splode Bloodless Carnage Adaptational Villainy Earn Your Happy Ending Brainless Beauty Artistic License – Military Bury Your Gays Undying Loyalty Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Blood from the Mouth Tap on the Head Fan Disservice Fanservice Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Serious Business The Ace Mind Screw A.I. Is a Crapshoot Stuff Blowing Up Yandere Not So Stoic The End... Or Is It? Plucky Comic Relief Show Within a Show Hooker with a Heart of Gold Ambiguous Disorder Fiery Redhead Empathic Environment Self-Deprecation Straight Gay Implacable Man Hero Antagonist Drill Sergeant Nasty Pet the Dog Fat Bastard The X of Y Pretty Little Headshots Friend to All Children Unusual Euphemism Vampire Fiction Grievous Bottley Harm Slasher Smile Big Brother Instinct Combat Pragmatist British Films Evil Counterpart Ghost Fiction Fake Shemp Deal with the Devil The Alcoholic Badass Longcoat Insane Troll Logic Babies Ever After Artistic License – Gun Safety The Film of the Book The Alleged Car Not So Different Spell My Name with an "S" Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Fish out of Water It's All About Me Contrived Coincidence Arranged Marriage Guile Hero Heel Realization Horror Comedy Cloudcuckoolander Ass Shove Honor Before Reason Distracted by the Sexy Shell-Shocked Veteran Together in Death Mystery and Detective Films Due to the Dead Grey and Gray Morality Word of God Death by Adaptation Wicked Cultured Chekhov's Gunman Epic Movie Adaptational Badass Fantasy Films Intrepid Reporter Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Frame-Up The Big Guy A Date with Rosie Palms Fate Worse than Death Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Precision F-Strike Establishing Character Moment Enemy Mine Continuity Nod Punch-Clock Villain Country Matters Dying Moment of Awesome Naked People Are Funny The Sociopath No Ending Demoted to Extra Blatant Lies Action Girl Off with His Head! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Evil Laugh As Himself Eyepatch of Power Parental Substitute Reasonable Authority Figure Belligerent Sexual Tension Humiliation Conga Handicapped Badass From Bad to Worse Brother–Sister Incest Adult Fear Overly Long Gag Skewed Priorities BFG Arc Words Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Retired Badass Funny Foreigner Early Installment Weirdness Cowboy Cop Adorkable Too Dumb to Live Be Careful What You Wish For Spiteful Spit Leave the Camera Running Sequel Escalation Broken Bird Alas, Poor Villain Man on Fire Those Wacky Nazis Children Are Innocent Loads and Loads of Characters Shirtless Scene Slap-Slap-Kiss Faux Affably Evil Rewatch Bonus Actor Allusion Meet Cute Dissonant Serenity Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Decoy Protagonist Exactly What It Says on the Tin Curb-Stomp Battle Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Camp Gay The '80s Adaptation Distillation No OSHA Compliance Dirty Old Man The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Historical Hero Upgrade What Happened to the Mouse? 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For! Emphasis! Twist Ending Sanity Slippage Gender Flip Double-Meaning Title Malevolent Masked Men Determinator Camera Abuse Butt-Monkey Italian Films O.O.C. Is Serious Business Woman Scorned Red Shirt Green-Eyed Monster Retirony Hollywood Darkness Hollywood Law Hidden Depths Drives Like Crazy The Faceless Noodle Incident Adaptation Name Change Break the Haughty Canon Foreigner Recycled IN SPACE! Amusing Injuries Mercy Kill The Smurfette Principle He Knows Too Much Drowning My Sorrows And the Adventure Continues Sports Stories folderlabel Married to the Job Central Theme The Stoic Lock and Load Montage Corrupt Corporate Executive Stealth Pun Moment Killer Destination Defenestration Black and Gray Morality No-Holds-Barred Beatdown A Father to His Men Mugging the Monster Hero of Another Story Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Chekhov's Gun Every Car Is a Pinto Humans Are Bastards Disappeared Dad Left the Background Music On Dwindling Party Would Hurt a Child The Quiet One Chase Scene Award-Bait Song N-Word Privileges The Reveal Spanner in the Works French Films Not Even Bothering with the Accent Outrun the Fireball Zombie Stories Funny Background Event Eiffel Tower Effect Knight Templar Rousing Speech Bond Villain Stupidity Antagonist Title Match Cut Corpsing Pragmatic Villainy Hypocritical Humor Bond One-Liner Big Eater The Ditz Anguished Declaration of Love Big Fancy House Woman in White Celebrity Paradox Romantic False Lead Arch-Enemy Truth in Television Mad Scientist Alpha Bitch Paper-Thin Disguise From Nobody to Nightmare Bilingual Bonus No Name Given Big Bad Becoming the Mask All Girls Want Bad Boys Final Girl Aluminum Christmas Trees Evil-Detecting Dog Gorn Hope Spot Heroes Want Redheads Logo Joke Christmas Movies Index Get Out! Offscreen Teleportation Extremely Short Timespan Taking the Bullet Only One Name As the Good Book Says... I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bait-and-Switch Deus ex Machina Love at First Sight Big "NO!" Asshole Victim Dramatic Irony Karmic Death Pragmatic Adaptation Here We Go Again! Defiant to the End The Smart Guy Gone Horribly Right Batman Gambit Villain Opening Scene All Just a Dream Ship Tease Leitmotif Dirty Coward Dark Is Not Evil Costume Porn Call-Forward Boom, Headshot! Actually Pretty Funny How We Got Here Better to Die than Be Killed Bavarian Fire Drill Artistic License – Biology Ax-Crazy Ungrateful Bastard More Dakka Deliberately Monochrome Accidental Misnaming Badass in a Nice Suit Foil Evil vs. Evil Death by Irony Never Found the Body Flashback Serial Killer Men Are the Expendable Gender Chekhov's Skill Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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