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