Tropescilloscope: Jump Scare

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