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