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