Tropescilloscope: It's Personal

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

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Shirtless Scene Nice Hat Four-Temperament Ensemble Genre Savvy French Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mooks Rule of Symbolism Frame-Up Country Matters Agony of the Feet Russian Films Token Minority "Shaggy Dog" Story The Musical Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Very Loosely Based on a True Story No Antagonist Totally Radical Red Oni, Blue Oni Fatal Flaw Grey and Gray Morality Gratuitous English Jump Scare Broken Pedestal The Remake Corrupt Corporate Executive It's All About Me Market-Based Title It's Personal I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Stalker with a Crush Awesome, but Impractical How We Got Here Death by Irony Henpecked Husband Knight Templar Maybe Ever After Older Than They Look Wham Shot Needs Wiki Magic Love Bilingual Bonus Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fantastic Racism Monumental Damage Non-Indicative Name Darker and Edgier Dark and Troubled Past The Un-Reveal Deliberately Monochrome Grievous Bottley Harm Didn't Think This Through Contrived Coincidence Implacable Man Off-into-the-Distance Ending Costume Porn My Greatest Failure Catapult Nightmare Adaptational Heroism Rewatch Bonus Hero of Another Story Our Vampires Are Different Playing Gertrude Bald of Evil Laser-Guided Karma Hero Antagonist Visual Pun Breaking the Fourth Wall Lighter and Softer Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Half the Man He Used to Be Tap on the Head Once More, with Clarity! Kids Are Cruel Artistic License – Gun Safety War Is Hell She Cleans Up Nicely As Himself Film Noir Wicked Cultured Tranquil Fury Five-Man Band Chewing the Scenery In Name Only Enemy Mine Fake Shemp Extremely Short Timespan Epic Movie No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Bully Green-Eyed Monster Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Genre Shift Loads and Loads of Characters Happily Married Ambiguous Ending Mighty Whitey Slap-Slap-Kiss Victoria's Secret Compartment "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Trailers Always Spoil "Awesome McCool" Name Guns Akimbo Same Language Dub Not So Different Never Found the Body Creepy Child Jerk Jock Loophole Abuse Properly Paranoid No-Sell Fingore Villain Opening Scene Star-Crossed Lovers The '90s The Lost Lenore Room Full of Crazy Mistaken for Gay Dutch Angle Super Strength Sequel Escalation Big Eater Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Video Credits Irony The Great Depression A Date with Rosie Palms Improbable Weapon User Together in Death The Hero Dies Rule of Cool Hoist by His Own Petard Badass in a Nice Suit Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Love Triangle Bavarian Fire Drill Badass Normal Nothing Is Scarier Crucified Hero Shot Action Genre Jerkass Paper-Thin Disguise The Ace Blackmail Smug Snake Soundtrack Dissonance Did Not Get the Girl Break the Cutie Scare Chord Casting Gag Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Sociopath Undying Loyalty Artistic License – History Deadpan Snarker Man on Fire Kill It with Fire Made of Iron I Did What I Had to Do The Mole Evil Sounds Deep Woman in White Hope Spot Pimped-Out Dress Creative Closing Credits It Will Never Catch On Hidden Depths Mood Whiplash Darkest Hour One Steve Limit Never My Fault What the Hell, Hero? MacGuffin Call-Back Police Brutality Exact Words You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Well-Intentioned Extremist Big Brother Instinct Redemption Equals Death Adaptational Badass Logo Joke Public Domain Feature Films True Companions Adults Are Useless Major Injury Underreaction The Faceless Rule of Funny Failed a Spot Check The Load Zombie Stories Madness Mantra Evil Is Hammy Unusual Euphemism Your Head A-Splode Translation Convention Male Frontal Nudity Soft Glass Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality World of Ham Broken Bird 20 Minutes into the Future Adaptation Distillation Kill 'em All Training Montage Take a Third Option Guile Hero Double-Meaning Title Alliterative Name Cluster F-Bomb Eyepatch of Power Kick the Dog Mr. Exposition Black Comedy Rape Vomit Discretion Shot O.O.C. Is Serious Business Cool Old Lady Bond Villain Stupidity Love at First Sight Cool Shades Smoking Is Cool Auto Erotica Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Toplessness from the Back One-Man Army The Starscream All Just a Dream Expy Adapted Out Mugging the Monster Heel–Face Turn Kick the Son of a Bitch Woman Scorned Eye Scream Insistent Terminology Brother–Sister Incest Heroic Sacrifice Empathic Environment Funny Background Event Badass Boast Cat Fight Black Dude Dies First Sinister Minister The Film of the Book Eiffel Tower Effect Freudian Excuse Fat Bastard Arranged Marriage Humans Are Bastards Random Events Plot Driven to Suicide Film Noir Index Film Series Cowboy Cop Foreshadowing Bloodless Carnage Thriller Horror Comedy From Bad to Worse Manly Tears Downer Ending Police are Useless German Films Babies Ever After Slasher Movie Anachronic Order Immune to Bullets La Résistance Artistic License – Geography Blatant Lies Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Amoral Attorney Hypocrite Air-Vent Passageway Slashed Throat More Dakka Apocalypse How Card-Carrying Villain Japanese Films Drugs Are Bad Insane Troll Logic Fate Worse than Death Informed Ability Author Avatar Sexy Discretion Shot Mad Scientist Affably Evil Italian Films Ax-Crazy The Mafia Hooker with a Heart of Gold Leitmotif Only Known by Their Nickname Crapsack World Distracted by the Sexy Whole Plot Reference Canadian Movies Chekhov's Gunman Ms. Fanservice Getting Crap Past the Radar The Alcoholic Dwindling Party Dissonant Serenity Outrun the Fireball Disappeared Dad Hell Is That Noise Aluminum Christmas Trees Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Character Development Dramatic Irony Those Two Bad Guys Due to the Dead Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Vitriolic Best Buds Shower Scene Screw This, I'm Outta Here! British Films Knife Nut Refuge in Audacity Wounded Gazelle Gambit Curb-Stomp Battle Straight Gay Big "NO!" Dogged Nice Guy Broken Aesop Neck Lift Earn Your Happy Ending Villain Song Villainous Breakdown Mythology Gag Despair Event Horizon All for Nothing Hong Kong Films Call-Forward What Happened to the Mouse? 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Diabolus ex Machina Actor Allusion Daddy's Girl Dull Surprise Horror Films Heroes Want Redheads Bond One-Liner Parental Incest Deconstruction Bound and Gagged I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Storming the Castle Missing Mom Crazy Jealous Guy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Stylistic Suck Crazy-Prepared N-Word Privileges Body Horror Badass Longcoat Extreme Doormat Evil Counterpart Race Lift Early Installment Weirdness Arc Words Corpsing The Smurfette Principle An Arm and a Leg The Power of Love A Father to His Men Serious Business In the Back Worthy Opponent Disney Villain Death Your Cheating Heart Gone Horribly Right Ironic Echo The Quiet One Beta Couple Defiant to the End Cloudcuckoolander Index of Film Westerns Daylight Horror Offscreen Teleportation Scary Black Man Dumb Blonde The Lancer Red Right Hand Anguished Declaration of Love Big Bad Foregone Conclusion Death Glare Brainless Beauty Black Comedy Meet Cute Sacrificial Lion Race Against the Clock Dirty Old Man Skewed Priorities Novelization Not Using the "Z" Word Motor Mouth Mercy Kill And I Must Scream Those Two Guys Real Life Writes the Plot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Ass Shove Award-Bait Song Butt-Monkey Death by Sex Humiliation Conga Insult Backfire Creator Cameo Gilligan Cut Rasputinian Death Here We Go Again! 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Damsel in Distress Time Skip Dark Action Girl I'm a Humanitarian Groin Attack Adorkable Evil Brit Vomit Indiscretion Shot As the Good Book Says... 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