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