Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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