Tropescilloscope: Cat Scare

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

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