Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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