Tropescilloscope: Defrosting Ice Queen

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

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