Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

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

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