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