Tropescilloscope: Cat Scare

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

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