Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

Something/someone's theme music. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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