Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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Beware the Nice Ones Bavarian Fire Drill Nothing Is Scarier Hollywood Law Bait-and-Switch I Need a Freaking Drink Skewed Priorities Police are Useless Driven to Suicide Neck Lift Stylistic Suck No Ending The Chick Shipper on Deck Important Haircut Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Never My Fault Lampshade Hanging Bad "Bad Acting" The Alcoholic Once More, with Clarity! Action Prologue Genre Shift Chewing the Scenery Leave the Camera Running The Load I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dwindling Party Catch-Phrase Karmic Death Parental Incest In the Back Match Cut Product Placement Real Life Those Two Bad Guys Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Stealth Pun Time Skip Disappeared Dad Good Is Not Nice Grey and Gray Morality Heroic BSoD The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Never Trust a Trailer More Dakka Aside Glance No OSHA Compliance Take That! Anguished Declaration of Love Genre Throwback timeperiod The Dreaded Pragmatic Villainy Dying Moment of Awesome Foregone Conclusion Took a Level in Jerkass Intrepid Reporter Video Credits Calling the Old Man Out Card-Carrying Villain Neck Snap Mexican Standoff Mystery and Detective Films The '80s Corpsing Badass Grandpa Missing Mom Big Bad Duumvirate The Smurfette Principle Friend to All Children Hope Spot Red Right Hand Dressing as the Enemy Dutch Angle Honor Before Reason Blatant Lies Dark Action Girl The X of Y Captain Obvious Bi the Way Dramatic Irony Wham Shot Air-Vent Passageway Reality Is Unrealistic Manchild Villain Ball Male Gaze Hair-Trigger Temper Zombie Stories An Axe to Grind Mercy Kill Leitmotif Greater-Scope Villain Cat Fight Red Shirt Damsel in Distress Fire-Forged Friends Due to the Dead Book-Ends Implacable Man Self-Deprecation Hoist by His Own Petard Unreliable Narrator "The Reason You Suck" Speech Stealth Hi/Bye Eye Scream Extremely Short Timespan Awesome, but Impractical She's Got Legs Television Movie Index How We Got Here She Cleans Up Nicely Reckless Gun Usage Shut Up, Hannibal! Noodle Incident Slashed Throat The Great Depression Jump Scare Sexy Discretion Shot Flipping the Bird Unresolved Sexual Tension A God Am I Plot Hole Double Entendre My Beloved Smother Car Fu He Knows Too Much Silent Movie Real Life Writes the Plot Protagonist Title Anti-Hero Silence Is Golden Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Mugging the Monster Slasher Movie Black Best Friend Brainless Beauty Adaptational Villainy Abhorrent Admirer Fiery Redhead Red Oni, Blue Oni Madness Mantra Same Language Dub The Remake British Films Unspoken Plan Guarantee Obfuscating Stupidity Market-Based Title Super Strength Accidental Murder Military and Warfare Films Not So Different It Can Think Manipulative Bastard Bullying a Dragon As the Good Book Says... 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The Dragon Mundane Made Awesome Too Dumb to Live Vomit Discretion Shot Dual Wielding Toplessness from the Back Enemy Mine No Celebrities Were Harmed Insane Troll Logic Have a Gay Old Time Becoming the Mask Pragmatic Adaptation Cat Scare Bad Boss Hollywood Darkness The '70s Heroic Sacrifice I'm a Humanitarian Black Comedy Creepy Child Affectionate Parody Pretty in Mink Taking You with Me Throwing Your Sword Always Works "Shaggy Dog" Story The Hero Dies La Résistance And I Must Scream Our Vampires Are Different Actually Pretty Funny Stock Footage As You Know Camp Gay Your Cheating Heart Even Evil Has Loved Ones Beta Couple Aluminum Christmas Trees Artistic License – Biology Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Be Careful What You Wish For Martial Arts Movie Animated Credits Opening Dull Surprise Italian Films Defiant to the End Interrupted Suicide 20 Minutes into the Future Mr. Exposition Leaning on the Fourth Wall Redemption Equals Death Taking the Bullet Cool Old Guy Whole Plot Reference Playing Gertrude Married to the Job Broken Aesop Comically Missing the Point Music Stories Agony of the Feet You Have Failed Me Adorkable Does Not Like Shoes Outrun the Fireball Big-Bad Ensemble The Atoner Fourth Date Marriage Not So Above It All Naïve Newcomer Eagleland Truth in Television Historical Villain Upgrade Author Appeal Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Five-Man Band Line-of-Sight Name The Cavalry It Will Never Catch On The Ghost You Killed My Father Serious Business Get Out! As Himself No-Sell Really Gets Around My Greatest Failure Stalker with a Crush Anyone Can Die Adapted Out All Girls Want Bad Boys "Well Done, Son!" Guy Blackmail Pre-Mortem One-Liner Shoot the Shaggy Dog Groin Attack MacGuffin Cool Old Lady Not Even Bothering with the Accent Fainting The Quiet One Novelization The Cameo The Vamp Mooks Historical Hero Upgrade French Films Last-Name Basis Obstructive Bureaucrat Darkest Hour Costume Porn Cold-Blooded Torture Evil Is Hammy Early Installment Weirdness Mighty Whitey Heroes Want Redheads Evil Plan Double-Meaning Title Early-Bird Cameo Faking the Dead Slap-Slap-Kiss Kubrick Stare Fun with Acronyms Improvised Weapon Adults Are Useless Bare Your Midriff Green-Eyed Monster Spiteful Spit Not Quite Dead Only Known by Their Nickname Retired Badass Diabolus ex Machina The Mole Alliterative Name Half the Man He Used to Be An Aesop Famous Last Words Re-Cut Parental Abandonment Cool Car Everyone Has Standards Twist Ending Dark Is Not Evil One-Word Title O.O.C. 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Is a Crapshoot Revenge Evil-Detecting Dog Evil Counterpart Anti-Villain Adaptation Dye-Job Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Drowning My Sorrows Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Humans Are Bastards Destination Defenestration No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Evil Laugh Improbable Aiming Skills Obviously Evil Paper-Thin Disguise Extreme Doormat Rule of Symbolism Say My Name Gratuitous English Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hidden Depths Suspiciously Specific Denial For Want of a Nail This Is Gonna Suck Evil vs. Evil Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Bully Tranquil Fury Genre Savvy Male Frontal Nudity Henpecked Husband The End... Or Is It? 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Plucky Comic Relief Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Men Are the Expendable Gender Catapult Nightmare Vacation Films Character Development Shown Their Work Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Idiot Ball Badass Normal The Lancer Science Fiction Films Karma Houdini Irony Punch-Clock Villain Creator Cameo Smoking Is Cool Up to Eleven Black and Gray Morality Hell Is That Noise Chekhov's Skill Every Car Is a Pinto Only a Flesh Wound Sequel Escalation Reality Ensues Insistent Terminology Spiritual Successor Hypocritical Humor The Place Department of Redundancy Department Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Arc Words folderlabel Non-Indicative Name Posthumous Character Recycled IN SPACE! Faux Affably Evil Belligerent Sexual Tension Horror Films Flashback Overprotective Dad Parental Neglect Pretty Little Headshots Australian Movies A Date with Rosie Palms Properly Paranoid Punny Name Smug Snake Fingore Mr. Fanservice Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Call-Forward Ambiguous Ending Final Girl Artistic License – Geography Public Domain Feature Films Heel–Face Turn Pay Evil unto Evil Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptational Heroism Mama Bear Hero Antagonist Fatal Family Photo Author Avatar Star-Crossed Lovers Funny Background Event Jerk Jock The Lost Lenore Bond Villain Stupidity Ironic Echo Soft Glass Stepford Smiler Disguised in Drag The Reveal Unusual Euphemism Adaptation Distillation Composite Character Loophole Abuse Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Deadpan Snarker Large Ham Overly Long Gag Love Triangle Papa Wolf Scenery Gorn Boom, Headshot! Sequel Hook Dumb Blonde Bury Your Gays Imagine Spot Armor-Piercing Question The Alleged Car Well-Intentioned Extremist Pimped-Out Dress Anachronism Stew Bar Brawl Mistaken for Gay Big Fancy House Suddenly SHOUTING! Ghost Fiction Victoria's Secret Compartment Very Loosely Based on a True Story Determinator aka: The Determinator Peek-a-Boo Corpse Death Glare Oh, Crap! A Minor Kidroduction Ax-Crazy Broken Pedestal Expy It's Personal Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Token Minority Ungrateful Bastard Accidental Misnaming Cluster F-Bomb Cool Shades Cowboy Cop Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Your Head A-Splode Documentary Adaptational Badass Lighter and Softer Wounded Gazelle Gambit Developing Doomed Characters Rasputinian Death Arch-Enemy Badass in a Nice Suit Gender Flip Break the Haughty Jerkass Villain with Good Publicity Visual Pun Fanservice Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Curse Cut Short The Faceless Drugs Are Bad Needs Wiki Magic Love Translation Convention Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Only Sane Man Spared by the Adaptation Woman in White Covers Always Lie The Dog Bites Back Romantic Comedy Eyepatch of Power Distracted by the Sexy Offscreen Teleportation Rule of Three Jerkass Has a Point Make It Look Like an Accident Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass True Companions World of Ham Dies Wide Open Death by Sex What the Hell, Hero? Amoral Attorney Ship Tease No Antagonist Major Injury Underreaction Dramedy A Father to His Men Vampire Fiction Shout-Out Dark and Troubled Past Lock and Load Montage Villain Opening Scene Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dirty Cop Undying Loyalty Politically Incorrect Villain Historical-Domain Character Almost Kiss Fantasy Films All Just a Dream Rule of Cool Ms. Fanservice Wrong Genre Savvy Didn't Think This Through Alas, Poor Villain Death of a Child Gold Digger Adaptation Expansion Exactly What It Says on the Tin Failed a Spot Check Villainous Breakdown Action Survivor Manic Pixie Dream Girl Light Is Not Good Disproportionate Retribution Defrosting Ice Queen Anachronic Order Bolivian Army Ending Asshole Victim Killed Mid-Sentence Combat Pragmatist Central Theme Ascended Extra The Chessmaster Thriller Happily Married Left the Background Music On Badass Boast Crazy-Prepared All for Nothing Put on a Bus Ass Shove Gilligan Cut Handicapped Badass Index of Film Westerns Easily Forgiven Shirtless Scene The Oner Brutal Honesty Villain Protagonist Spell My Name with an "S" Adaptation Name Change Butt-Monkey Action Girl Fantastic Racism Roaring Rampage of Revenge Animal Motifs Artistic License – Physics Award-Bait Song One Steve Limit The Big Guy Humiliation Conga Jitter Cam Bunny-Ears Lawyer Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Red Eyes, Take Warning Not So Stoic Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Pet the Dog Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! From Bad to Worse Laser-Guided Karma Scare Chord Daddy's Girl Insult Backfire Malevolent Masked Men Ominous Latin Chanting Psychological Thriller Off with His Head! Shower Scene Even Evil Has Standards Bowdlerise Celebrity Paradox