Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

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

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