Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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