Tropescilloscope: Love at First Sight

Falling in love with someone upon meeting/seeing them for the first time. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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