Tropescilloscope: Cat Scare

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

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