Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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