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)

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