Tropescilloscope: It's Personal

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

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