Tropescilloscope: It's Personal

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

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