Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

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

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