Tropescilloscope: Cat Scare

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

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