Tropescilloscope: O.O.C. Is Serious Business

They don't always act out of character. But when they do... something's wrong. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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