Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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