Tropescilloscope: Cat Scare

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

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