Tropescilloscope: Cat Scare

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

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