Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

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

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