Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

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

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