Tropescilloscope: Cat Scare

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

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Running Gag Heroes Want Redheads All Men Are Perverts Dramedy Dirty Cop Pay Evil unto Evil Big Eater Idiot Ball Meet Cute Faking the Dead Scare Chord Award-Bait Song Evil Sounds Deep Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Corrupt Corporate Executive One-Man Army Men Are the Expendable Gender Death by Adaptation Leaning on the Fourth Wall Every Car Is a Pinto Fantastic Racism Awesome, but Impractical Freeze-Frame Bonus Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Instant Death Bullet The Remake Informed Ability No Name Given Male Frontal Nudity Adaptation Name Change Jitter Cam Obstructive Bureaucrat Dwindling Party Attempted Rape Cluster F-Bomb Rousing Speech The Bad Guy Wins French Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Author Avatar Never Trust a Trailer Aside Glance Adult Fear Bavarian Fire Drill The Dreaded Defiant to the End Dirty Old Man Expository Hairstyle Change Arch-Enemy Sassy Black Woman Music Stories Vitriolic Best Buds Chewing the Scenery Made of Explodium Yandere A Date with Rosie Palms Captain Obvious B-Movie Australian Movies Face Death with Dignity Breaking the Fourth Wall Artistic License – Military Overly Long Gag Only Sane Man Big Applesauce Malevolent Masked Men Hate Sink Happily Married Beard of Evil The Hero Brother–Sister Incest Insistent Terminology Once More, with Clarity! 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Is Serious Business Fatal Flaw Belligerent Sexual Tension Badass Bookworm Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Ghost Video Credits Dying Moment of Awesome Sealed Evil in a Can "Well Done, Son!" 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Only a Flesh Wound Spiteful Spit Manipulative Bastard My Beloved Smother The Great Depression Implacable Man Eagleland Death Seeker Only One Name Chekhov's Skill Only in It for the Money Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Artistic License – History Novelization Fake Shemp Double Entendre Catapult Nightmare Too Dumb to Live Tap on the Head Bolivian Army Ending Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Hooker with a Heart of Gold What Happened to the Mouse? No Celebrities Were Harmed Developing Doomed Characters Karmic Death Stuff Blowing Up Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dirty Coward Cruel and Unusual Death Offscreen Teleportation Kids Are Cruel The Film of the Book Product Placement Documentary The Un-Reveal Needs Wiki Magic Love Berserk Button Evil-Detecting Dog Fire-Forged Friends Those Wacky Nazis Amoral Attorney Fingore Dissonant Serenity You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Based on a True Story Evil Laugh Be Careful What You Wish For Vampire Fiction In the Back My God, What Have I Done? Vomit Indiscretion Shot Daddy's Girl Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Ominous Latin Chanting "Awesome McCool" Name Immune to Bullets The Stoic Everyone Has Standards Trailers Always Spoil Did Not Get the Girl Insane Troll Logic Spell My Name with an "S" Bi the Way More Dakka He Who Fights Monsters The Chick Manly Tears Together in Death Psychopathic Manchild Soundtrack Dissonance Dual Wielding Cold-Blooded Torture Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Meaningful Name Does Not Like Shoes Costume Porn Real Life Writes the Plot Apocalypse How Kubrick Stare Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Department of Redundancy Department Science Fiction Films Alliterative Name Scenery Gorn Shut Up, Hannibal! Blatant Lies He Knows Too Much Bound and Gagged Film Noir Break the Haughty Extremely Short Timespan The Atoner Romantic Comedy Those Two Bad Guys Reality Has No Subtitles Boom, Headshot! Rule of Three Posthumous Character Ms. Fanservice Race Lift Blood Knight The Chessmaster Babies Ever After Hypocritical Humor Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Corpsing Didn't Think This Through Beware the Nice Ones A God Am I Drugs Are Bad The Place Broken Pedestal Mexican Standoff Eyepatch of Power Silent Movie Deliberate Values Dissonance Never Found the Body Male Gaze Rewatch Bonus Badass Normal Camera Abuse Bury Your Gays Diabolus ex Machina What You Are in the Dark Loads and Loads of Characters BFG Would Hit a Girl Genre Savvy Biopic Jump Scare Slasher Movie Bond Villain Stupidity Pretty in Mink Blackmail Accidental Murder Creepy Child Say My Name Villain Song Manchild And Starring Wrong Genre Savvy Half the Man He Used to Be No OSHA Compliance Scary Black Man Kick the Dog Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Demoted to Extra Rule of Funny Dark Action Girl Small Name, Big Ego Adaptation Dye-Job Darker and Edgier Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Hollywood Law I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Death by Irony Gilligan Cut Children Are Innocent Papa Wolf Calling the Old Man Out Eldritch Abomination Gorn Heel Realization Mythology Gag Those Two Guys Retirony Not So Above It All Central Theme Spiritual Successor The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Determinator aka: The Determinator Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Shower Scene Unresolved Sexual Tension Anti-Villain Love at First Sight Agony of the Feet Mighty Whitey Aluminum Christmas Trees Take That! 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Obfuscating Stupidity Asshole Victim Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Damsel in Distress Beta Couple Bloodless Carnage Continuity Nod Gainax Ending Plucky Comic Relief The Ditz Driven to Suicide Framing Device The Cameo Slashed Throat Red Right Hand Crazy Jealous Guy Big Bad Duumvirate Catch-Phrase Empathic Environment Drowning My Sorrows Grievous Bottley Harm Names to Run Away from Really Fast You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Wounded Gazelle Gambit Well-Intentioned Extremist Overprotective Dad Loophole Abuse Taking You with Me Killed Mid-Sentence Rich Bitch Naïve Newcomer Bad "Bad Acting" The Alcoholic I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Not Quite Dead The Lancer Meaningful Background Event Man on Fire Bare Your Midriff Title Drop Kill 'em All Storming the Castle Due to the Dead Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Betty and Veronica Sir Swears-a-Lot Chiaroscuro All Just a Dream Cowboy Cop Wham Line Sanity Slippage Adapted Out Dutch Angle Really Gets Around Big Damn Heroes