Tropescilloscope: Dissonant Serenity

Person is eerily calm even in the worst situations. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Accidental Misnaming Black Best Friend The '80s Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Artistic License – Military Insult Backfire Fingore From Nobody to Nightmare True Companions Crucified Hero Shot Cool Old Lady Beta Couple Love Triangle Never Found the Body Whole Plot Reference Facial Horror Twist Ending Rule of Funny Match Cut Deliberate Values Dissonance Fanservice Extra Curse Cut Short Suddenly SHOUTING! Badass Boast Pet the Dog Undying Loyalty Small Name, Big Ego Anti-Hero Cain and Abel Artistic License – Physics I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Friend to All Children Good Is Not Nice Shipper on Deck A God Am I Jerkass Mooks Distracted by the Sexy Irony Batman Gambit Yandere Thriller In Medias Res Action Girl Butt-Monkey Even Evil Has Standards Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sequel Hook Expository Hairstyle Change Bring My Brown Pants Big Applesauce Kubrick Stare Stock Footage Dies Wide Open Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Naked People Are Funny Scenery Porn Wrong Genre Savvy Red Right Hand He Who Fights Monsters Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Does Not Like Shoes The End... Or Is It? Our Zombies Are Different Leitmotif And I Must Scream A Minor Kidroduction All There in the Manual Disguised in Drag Horror Comedy Wham Line Attempted Rape Super Strength Destination Defenestration Humans Are Bastards Bland-Name Product Poor Communication Kills Sinister Minister Failed a Spot Check Despair Event Horizon Male Frontal Nudity The Smurfette Principle Really Gets Around Hero of Another Story Breaking the Fourth Wall Killed Mid-Sentence Henpecked Husband Face Death with Dignity Translation Convention The Stoic No Ending Meaningful Name Silent Movie Room Full of Crazy Fainting Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Paper-Thin Disguise Not Quite Dead Homage Made of Iron Awesome, but Impractical Girl-on-Girl Is Hot For Want of a Nail Death Glare Epic Fail Token Minority My Beloved Smother Chekhov's Gunman Fun with Acronyms Sci-Fi Horror My Greatest Failure Totally Radical Adaptation Dye-Job Evil Is Petty As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Sociopath Shown Their Work Gold Digger Happily Married Drill Sergeant Nasty Cloudcuckoolander Demonic Possession Deal with the Devil This Is Gonna Suck Cold-Blooded Torture Mystery and Detective Films Film Noir Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Cat Scare Smug Snake Vitriolic Best Buds And the Adventure Continues Vacation Films Dramatic Irony Bilingual Bonus Brainless Beauty Film Series Silence Is Golden Amusing Injuries French Films No Name Given Evil Is Hammy Country Matters Retirony Bald of Evil Too Dumb to Live Gilligan Cut Ambiguous Ending Peek-a-Boo Corpse Rewatch Bonus Death by Adaptation Naïve Newcomer Overprotective Dad Villain Song Big Bad Unusually Uninteresting Sight Deadpan Snarker Morality Pet Closed Circle Cool Old Guy Costume Porn All Just a Dream Tagline One-Man Army Double Entendre I Need a Freaking Drink Spell My Name with an "S" Hero Antagonist La Résistance The X of Y Take a Third Option Composite Character World of Ham Adaptational Heroism Biopic Mexican Standoff Japanese Films Pragmatic Adaptation Taking You with Me Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dumb Blonde All Girls Want Bad Boys Title Drop Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Love at First Sight Hate Sink A Father to His Men The Brute Heel–Face Turn Karma Houdini Award-Bait Song Public Domain Feature Films The Starscream Television Movie Index Re-Cut Artistic License – Gun Safety Idiot Ball Captain Obvious Neck Snap Bi the Way Stepford Smiler Intergenerational Friendship Unresolved Sexual Tension Market-Based Title Bloodier and Gorier Auto Erotica The Atoner Card-Carrying Villain The Un-Reveal Woman Scorned Slasher Smile Daylight Horror Put on a Bus Black and Gray Morality One-Word Title Your Head A-Splode Logo Joke Left the Background Music On Hypocrite Big Eater Chekhov's Gun Four-Temperament Ensemble "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Beauty Is Never Tarnished Death Seeker Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Index of Film Westerns Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Laser-Guided Karma Villain Ball Tap on the Head Artistic License – Biology What Happened to the Mouse? 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Meet Cute Guns Akimbo Red Herring Adaptation Expansion Once More, with Clarity! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Visual Pun The Oner Gender Flip NO INDOOR VOICE Loads and Loads of Characters Dramatic Gun Cock Domestic Abuse You Killed My Father Dwindling Party Precision F-Strike Genre Savvy Jitter Cam A Date with Rosie Palms Femme Fatale Offscreen Moment of Awesome Redshirt Army For the Evulz Crazy Jealous Guy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Well-Intentioned Extremist Serial Killer Moment Killer Pay Evil unto Evil And Starring Hope Spot Damsel in Distress Would Hurt a Child The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Horror Films Overly Long Gag The Vamp MacGuffin The '90s Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Sacrificial Lion Race Against the Clock "Shaggy Dog" Story Alpha Bitch Reality Is Unrealistic Foregone Conclusion Bad Boss Wounded Gazelle Gambit Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Did Not Get the Girl Berserk Button All There in the Script You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Easily Forgiven Big Bad Duumvirate Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Those Wacky Nazis Empathic Environment Genre Throwback An Arm and a Leg Humiliation Conga Obfuscating Stupidity Earn Your Happy Ending I Have Your Wife Malevolent Masked Men Crapsack World Real Life Police are Useless The Place Pyrrhic Victory The Load Lampshade Hanging Ascended Extra Determinator Psychological Thriller Large Ham I Did What I Had to Do Soft Glass Arch-Enemy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Combat Pragmatist Red Shirt Improbable Weapon User Death of a Child The Stinger Trailers Always Spoil Dogged Nice Guy Deus ex Machina As Himself Children Are Innocent Throwing Your Sword Always Works Epic Movie Revenge Male Gaze Australian Movies Extremely Short Timespan Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Adaptational Attractiveness Shout-Out Deconstruction Only in It for the Money Creative Closing Credits Accidental Murder A.I. 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