Tropescilloscope: Dissonant Serenity

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

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