Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

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

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