Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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