Tropescilloscope: Dissonant Serenity

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

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