Tropescilloscope: Four-Temperament Ensemble

The cheerful one (Sanguine), the passionate one (Choleric), the calm one (Phlegmatic), and the methodical one (Melancholic), along with an optional fifth neutral one. (Eclectic) (read more at tvtropes.org)

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