Tropescilloscope: Dissonant Serenity

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

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