Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

Character has more to them than meets the eye. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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