Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

The sun shines on horror-themed stories. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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