Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

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

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