Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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