Tropescilloscope: It's Personal

Character has a very close, emotional investment in the story's conflict. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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