Tropescilloscope: Defrosting Ice Queen

In personality, a cold person who warms up over time. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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