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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Fanservice Make It Look Like an Accident Nothing Is Scarier Names to Run Away from Really Fast Brick Joke Creator Cameo Greater-Scope Villain Television Movie Index War Is Hell The '90s Skewed Priorities Dutch Angle Chiaroscuro Gold Digger Japanese Films Crazy-Prepared Chewing the Scenery I Need a Freaking Drink Heroic BSoD Fun with Acronyms Martial Arts Movie Immune to Bullets Papa Wolf Outrun the Fireball Hooker with a Heart of Gold Historical-Domain Character Pretty Little Headshots Antagonist Title Vitriolic Best Buds Posthumous Character MacGuffin Evil Plan Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Beware the Nice Ones Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Twist Ending Obviously Evil Real Life Reasonable Authority Figure Apocalypse How timeperiod Deadpan Snarker Fatal Flaw You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Demoted to Extra I Have Your Wife Country Matters Slashed Throat Downer Ending B-Movie Death by Irony Hollywood Darkness Men Are the Expendable Gender One-Word Title Straight Gay Pyrrhic Victory Genre Throwback Dogged Nice Guy Wham Line The '60s Bowdlerise Brother–Sister Incest Gender Flip Framing Device Sole Survivor Product Placement Science Fiction Films Together in Death Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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No Antagonist Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Karmic Death Bring My Brown Pants Does Not Like Shoes Jerk with a Heart of Gold Madness Mantra Maybe Ever After Badass in a Nice Suit Anti-Hero Took a Level in Jerkass Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Shell-Shocked Veteran Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Disappeared Dad Eldritch Abomination Extremely Short Timespan Only a Flesh Wound Hope Spot Plucky Comic Relief Contrived Coincidence Batman Gambit NO INDOOR VOICE All Just a Dream Romantic False Lead Aluminum Christmas Trees Artistic License – Law Big "NO!" Fan Disservice Children Are Innocent Determinator aka: The Determinator My Greatest Failure Spiritual Successor Big Damn Heroes Soft Glass In Name Only Horror Films Shirtless Scene The Sociopath Four-Temperament Ensemble Up to Eleven Badass Grandpa Stealth Pun Neck Snap Evil Is Hammy Credits Gag Let's Get Dangerous! Real Life Writes the Plot Offscreen Teleportation Poor Communication Kills Too Dumb to Live Calling the Old Man Out Show Within a Show Crazy Jealous Guy Training Montage Biopic Bolivian Army Ending Meet Cute Those Two Guys Slasher Movie Darkest Hour Soundtrack Dissonance Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dark Reprise Ghost Fiction Henpecked Husband Spared by the Adaptation The End... Or Is It? Belligerent Sexual Tension Leave the Camera Running Ironic Echo Mama Bear Nice Hat Improbable Aiming Skills Villain with Good Publicity Woman in White Canon Foreigner Kill 'em All And I Must Scream Slasher Smile Ambiguous Ending Room Full of Crazy Bittersweet Ending Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Death Glare All There in the Script Love at First Sight Comically Missing the Point Humans Are Bastards Defiant to the End Bottomless Magazines Shout-Out Action Girl Famous Last Words True Companions Anachronism Stew Despair Event Horizon Dropped a Bridge on Him Break the Cutie Alliterative Name No Ending Foreshadowing Kill It with Fire The '70s Off-into-the-Distance Ending Affectionate Parody The Dragon Race Lift Manipulative Bastard Gone Horribly Right You Killed My Father Failed a Spot Check No Name Given Frame-Up Bad "Bad Acting" Fatal Family Photo Bullying a Dragon Fantasy Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Psycho for Hire Punny Name Oh, Crap! Camera Abuse Dies Wide Open Manly Tears Self-Deprecation Betty and Veronica Mr. Fanservice Australian Movies Sassy Black Woman It Will Never Catch On Made of Explodium Fire-Forged Friends Becoming the Mask Hollywood Law The Power of Love Big Brother Instinct Video Credits The Stinger Ms. Fanservice Pragmatic Villainy Black Comedy Dramatic Irony Didn't Think This Through Dull Surprise Fanservice Extra Historical Hero Upgrade Continuity Nod The Hero Dies Creepy Child Gainax Ending Our Vampires Are Different Facial Horror Film Noir Index Artistic License – Gun Safety Sinister Minister Green-Eyed Monster Adults Are Useless Affably Evil Say My Name Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Heterosexual Life-Partners The Ace The Place Mercy Kill Ax-Crazy Tagline Corpsing Mind Screw Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Cat Scare Big Fancy House Hidden Depths Politically Incorrect Villain Guns Akimbo Instant Death Bullet Canadian Movies Animal Motifs The Dreaded I'm a Humanitarian Domestic Abuse Manchild Random Events Plot Improbable Weapon User Male Frontal Nudity Rule of Symbolism Cool Car Sadistic Choice Large Ham Kids Are Cruel Catapult Nightmare Happily Married Badass Longcoat The Faceless Breaking the Fourth Wall Disney Villain Death Left the Background Music On The '50s Mood Whiplash Broken Pedestal Black Dude Dies First Irony folderlabel Last-Name Basis Sequel Hook Cold-Blooded Torture Bilingual Bonus Genre Shift Back from the Dead Captain Obvious Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Deal with the Devil The Oner In Medias Res As Long as It Sounds Foreign My Beloved Smother Lighter and Softer Psychological Thriller Adaptational Attractiveness All for Nothing Beta Couple Getting Crap Past the Radar Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Mad Scientist Adaptational Badass Grey and Gray Morality Drill Sergeant Nasty Abusive Parents Ominous Latin Chanting Even Evil Has Standards Anachronic Order Asshole Victim Taking You with Me Refuge in Audacity Ambiguously Gay Throwing Your Sword Always Works Hypocritical Humor Even Evil Has Loved Ones Red Shirt Scenery Gorn Rule of Three BFG Red Oni, Blue Oni Insistent Terminology Setting Update Yandere Dirty Old Man Celebrity Paradox Meaningful Name Villain Ball Unusual Euphemism Early-Bird Cameo Storming the Castle Obfuscating Stupidity Heroic Sacrifice Bar Brawl Extreme Doormat Loads and Loads of Characters Those Wacky Nazis No Celebrities Were Harmed Evil vs. Evil And the Adventure Continues Nice Guy Based on a True Story "Shaggy Dog" Story Bloodless Carnage Fake Shemp Flashback Eye Scream Disney Death Epic Movie Light Is Not Good Punch-Clock Villain Funny Background Event Big Eater The Lancer Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Every Car Is a Pinto Bond Villain Stupidity The Load Our Zombies Are Different Gory Discretion Shot Good Is Not Nice Eagleland Lampshade Hanging How We Got Here Badass Bookworm Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Annoying Younger Sibling The Remake Shipper on Deck "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Double-Meaning Title Serial Killer O.O.C. Is Serious Business Parental Neglect Retcon Chase Scene Parental Abandonment Cool Old Lady La Résistance Dramedy Music Stories Police are Useless No OSHA Compliance Here We Go Again! Mexican Standoff Logo Joke Adorkable Red Eyes, Take Warning Film Series Idiot Ball Action Genre Novelization Funny Foreigner Suspiciously Specific Denial Mugging the Monster Cruel and Unusual Death Curb-Stomp Battle Meaningful Background Event Rewatch Bonus Redemption Equals Death Hair-Trigger Temper Rape as Drama Film Noir Not So Stoic Hypocrite Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Spanner in the Works Jerk Jock Horror Comedy Dressing as the Enemy The Chick Deus ex Machina Catch-Phrase The Atoner Blood from the Mouth Reality Ensues The '80s Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dying Moment of Awesome Death by Sex Deliberate Values Dissonance Neck Lift Gilligan Cut Needs Wiki Magic Love Costume Porn Married to the Job Superhero Gratuitous English The Mole Plot Hole Properly Paranoid Intergenerational Friendship Artistic License – History Recycled IN SPACE! Interrupted Suicide The Bully Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Translation Convention Off with His Head! Groin Attack Conspicuous CG Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Never My Fault Grievous Bottley Harm Rasputinian Death It's All About Me Butt-Monkey Faking the Dead Works Set in World War II Foil Rated M for Manly Undying Loyalty Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Wounded Gazelle Gambit No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Pre-Mortem One-Liner Sci-Fi Horror Hoist by His Own Petard Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 20 Minutes into the Future Blackmail Mighty Whitey This Is Gonna Suck Documentary Body Horror Really Gets Around Unwitting Instigator of Doom Laser-Guided Karma Everyone Has Standards Cool Guns An Axe to Grind Stuff Blowing Up Parental Incest Major Injury Underreaction Stepford Smiler Determinator Non-Indicative Name Awesome, but Impractical The Bad Guy Wins Motor Mouth Advertised Extra Babies Ever After Danny Peary Cult Movies List Villain Song Wrong Genre Savvy Dwindling Party Actor Allusion Flipping the Bird Easily Forgiven Heel Realization Beauty Is Never Tarnished Pet the Dog Italian Films Face–Heel Turn Market-Based Title Running Gag Your Cheating Heart Paper-Thin Disguise Slap-Slap-Kiss An Aesop Bury Your Gays Hell Is That Noise From Nobody to Nightmare Villain Protagonist Spiteful Spit Zombie Stories Dark Action Girl My God, What Have I Done? Meaningful Echo The X of Y Implacable Man Coming-of-Age Story Adapted Out Animal Title Index Exactly What It Says on the Tin Earn Your Happy Ending Pragmatic Adaptation Berserk Button For Want of a Nail The Musical Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Eureka Moment Call-Back Arc Words Would Hurt a Child Put on a Bus Amoral Attorney Anti-Villain Bald of Evil Bare Your Midriff Ripped from the Headlines Badass Normal Villain Opening Scene Sealed Evil in a Can Accidental Murder Parental Substitute Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Monumental Damage Defrosting Ice Queen Rousing Speech Black and Gray Morality No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Precision F-Strike Silence Is Golden The Un-Reveal Pay Evil unto Evil Stealth Hi/Bye The Voiceless Spell My Name with an "S" There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Chessmaster Reality Is Unrealistic Big-Bad Ensemble Dual Wielding Adaptational Villainy Evil Laugh Bloodier and Gorier Dark Is Not Evil