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