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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Psycho for Hire Lampshade Hanging Only a Flesh Wound Japanese Films Jerkass Happily Married Worthy Opponent Card-Carrying Villain Vampire Fiction Mistaken for Gay Eureka Moment Red Eyes, Take Warning The Sociopath Jerk Jock Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Badass Bookworm Bond One-Liner Television Movie Index Babies Ever After Fantasy Films He Who Fights Monsters Trailers Always Spoil Bald of Evil Revenge Flipping the Bird Shower Scene Big Eater Pyrrhic Victory Noodle Incident Closed Circle Evil vs. Evil Dark Action Girl Would Hurt a Child Deliberately Monochrome Plot Hole Gainax Ending Damsel in Distress Running Gag Stealth Pun The Faceless Alliterative Name Off-into-the-Distance Ending Show Within a Show Foil O.O.C. Is Serious Business Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Vacation Films Nice Hat Ascended Extra Wham Line "Well Done, Son!" Guy Horror Films Hollywood Darkness As Himself Bound and Gagged Call-Forward Ripped from the Headlines The Stoic Body Horror Composite Character Hong Kong Films Black Dude Dies First Spiteful Spit A Date with Rosie Palms Evil Sounds Deep Never Found the Body Rule of Cool Stylistic Suck Historical Villain Upgrade Drowning My Sorrows Insistent Terminology Shut Up, Hannibal! Central Theme Together in Death The Hero Ghost Fiction Beard of Evil From Nobody to Nightmare Ominous Latin Chanting Coming-of-Age Story The Oner Drill Sergeant Nasty Creative Closing Credits Abusive Parents Maybe Ever After Australian Movies Rule of Symbolism Catapult Nightmare Big Bad Fingore Obviously Evil Eye Scream Recycled IN SPACE! Ms. Fanservice Armor-Piercing Question What You Are in the Dark Super Strength Straight Gay Manipulative Bastard "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dramedy Shipper on Deck Superhero Parental Incest Take a Third Option No Antagonist Establishing Character Moment Air-Vent Passageway True Companions It's Personal The Chick Suddenly SHOUTING! Badass in a Nice Suit Ass Shove Badass Longcoat Silent Movie Disney Villain Death Artistic License – Geography Jerk with a Heart of Gold Shown Their Work Adaptational Villainy Yandere Bloody Hilarious Manly Tears Suspiciously Similar Substitute As Long as It Sounds Foreign Kick the Dog Outrun the Fireball All Just a Dream Beauty Is Never Tarnished Red Shirt Bland-Name Product A God Am I Ambiguously Gay Double-Meaning Title Stuff Blowing Up Funny Foreigner Reckless Gun Usage British Films Villain with Good Publicity Genre Shift Fatal Family Photo Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Cat Scare The '80s Animal Title Index Well-Intentioned Extremist Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mood Whiplash Jerkass Has a Point The Cavalry Actually Pretty Funny The '70s Music Stories Freudian Excuse No-Sell The Lancer Adults Are Useless Character Development Karmic Death Fatal Flaw There Is No Kill Like Overkill Visual Pun Alpha Bitch Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Death Glare Adult Fear Ironic Echo Unresolved Sexual Tension Poor Communication Kills I Have Your Wife Historical Hero Upgrade Fainting Twist Ending Determinator aka: The Determinator Red Right Hand Stock Footage Left the Background Music On Works Set in World War II Mr. Fanservice Adaptation Distillation Deal with the Devil Fat Bastard Sinister Minister Brainless Beauty Heel Realization Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Laser-Guided Karma Fan Disservice Get Out! Pre-Mortem One-Liner What the Hell, Hero? Missing Mom Once More, with Clarity! Dual Wielding NO INDOOR VOICE Pay Evil unto Evil Pet the Dog Children Are Innocent Wicked Cultured Beta Couple Even Evil Has Standards Product Placement Blood from the Mouth Madness Mantra Disguised in Drag Half the Man He Used to Be Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bar Brawl Refuge in Audacity "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Anti-Villain Only Known by Their Nickname Obstructive Bureaucrat Heroes Want Redheads Big Bad Duumvirate timeperiod Major Injury Underreaction Chekhov's Gunman Anguished Declaration of Love Anachronism Stew Moment Killer Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Face Death with Dignity Combat Pragmatist No Name Given Biopic Historical In-Joke The End... Or Is It? Improbable Weapon User Large Ham Unusually Uninteresting Sight Pretty in Mink Love at First Sight La Résistance Groin Attack Femme Fatale Take That! Reality Ensues Bond Villain Stupidity Fiery Redhead Title Drop Meet Cute Covers Always Lie Daylight Horror Meaningful Echo Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Translation Convention N-Word Privileges Implacable Man Rousing Speech Crapsack World Casting Gag As You Know An Axe to Grind Needs Wiki Magic Love Grey and Gray Morality Mighty Whitey I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fake Shemp How We Got Here Smug Snake Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Wounded Gazelle Gambit Romantic False Lead Dressing as the Enemy The '90s Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Disney Death It's All About Me Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Crazy Jealous Guy Horror Comedy Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Calling the Old Man Out Corrupt Corporate Executive Up to Eleven Sanity Slippage Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Parental Abandonment Politically Incorrect Villain Unreliable Narrator Adaptational Heroism Alas, Poor Villain Adapted Out Book-Ends In Medias Res Epic Movie Whole Plot Reference And Starring The Great Depression Wham Shot The Dreaded Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Villain Opening Scene Bloodier and Gorier Greater-Scope Villain Shell-Shocked Veteran Film Noir Index Heel–Face Turn Neck Snap Death by Adaptation Cool Old Guy Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Brute Psychopathic Manchild Police Brutality Cowboy Cop Papa Wolf Dramatic Irony Badass Grandpa Foreshadowing Funny Background Event Camp Gay Fantastic Racism Car Fu For the Evulz Bowdlerise Eiffel Tower Effect Science Fiction Films The '50s Deconstruction Posthumous Character French Films Here We Go Again! 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Suspiciously Specific Denial Hell Is That Noise Beware the Nice Ones Those Wacky Nazis Bolivian Army Ending Canon Foreigner Sole Survivor Logo Joke Fire-Forged Friends Naïve Newcomer Developing Doomed Characters Butt-Monkey Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! I Need a Freaking Drink Country Matters Be Careful What You Wish For Market-Based Title Pragmatic Adaptation Names to Run Away from Really Fast Star-Crossed Lovers MacGuffin She Cleans Up Nicely Rule of Funny The Mafia I Did What I Had to Do Better to Die than Be Killed The Bully Reality Has No Subtitles Only One Name The Dog Bites Back Men Are the Expendable Gender Dies Wide Open Heroic Sacrifice Artistic License – Physics Corpsing Evil Plan German Films Would Hit a Girl Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Index of Film Westerns Shirtless Scene Monumental Damage Brick Joke Love Triangle Author Appeal Extremely Short Timespan What Happened to the Mouse? 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Villainous Breakdown Genre Savvy All for Nothing Irony Tranquil Fury Intergenerational Friendship Blood Knight Your Cheating Heart Hero Antagonist Scenery Porn Killed Mid-Sentence Room Full of Crazy Early-Bird Cameo Roaring Rampage of Revenge Darkest Hour Loads and Loads of Characters Self-Deprecation Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Brutal Honesty Arch-Enemy Evil Is Petty Cloudcuckoolander Villain Song Mystery and Detective Films Villain Ball Protagonist Title Dark and Troubled Past Smoking Is Cool Berserk Button Hidden Depths Older Than They Look Five-Man Band Hero of Another Story Pimped-Out Dress Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Artistic License – Gun Safety Knight Templar Dramatic Gun Cock Only in It for the Money Serious Business All There in the Script Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Light Is Not Good Rule of Three Adaptational Attractiveness Vitriolic Best Buds Truth in Television Our Vampires Are Different From Bad to Worse Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Improvised Weapon Thriller Call-Back Facial Horror "Shaggy Dog" Story Drives Like Crazy Small Name, Big Ego Undying Loyalty Gold Digger Film Noir Cool Shades Adaptation Name Change Lock and Load Montage Random Events Plot Spell My Name with an "S" Mad Scientist "Awesome McCool" Name Continuity Nod Race Against the Clock Bilingual Bonus The Un-Reveal Mythology Gag Genre Throwback Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Bad Guy Wins Let's Get Dangerous! Meaningful Background Event Creepy Child Anti-Hero Big Brother Instinct Playing Gertrude Rich Bitch Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Based on a True Story Parental Substitute Pragmatic Villainy Police are Useless Dutch Angle A.I. Is a Crapshoot Interrupted Suicide Good Is Not Nice Depraved Bisexual Getting Crap Past the Radar He Knows Too Much Make It Look Like an Accident And I Must Scream Break the Cutie Immune to Bullets Overprotective Dad Double Entendre Ship Tease Bittersweet Ending Deadpan Snarker Gilligan Cut Retcon Imagine Spot Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Ghost Conspicuous CG Defrosting Ice Queen Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Quiet One Catch-Phrase Fanservice Offscreen Teleportation An Aesop Ambiguous Disorder Broken Bird Match Cut Danny Peary Cult Movies List Four-Temperament Ensemble The Mole One-Man Army Blackmail Creator Cameo Russian Films Pretty Little Headshots Arc Words Narrator Hate Sink Green-Eyed Monster Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Flashback Rape as Drama Real Life Writes the Plot Domestic Abuse Foregone Conclusion Wrong Genre Savvy Adaptational Badass Reasonable Authority Figure The Vamp Vomit Discretion Shot Exactly What It Says on the Tin Grievous Bottley Harm Slasher Movie Final Girl Toplessness from the Back My Greatest Failure The Casanova Your Head A-Splode Awesome, but Impractical Action Genre Slashed Throat Hypocritical Humor She's Got Legs Dirty Old Man Expy Say My Name No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Skewed Priorities Leave the Camera Running Laughing Mad Real Life Dirty Cop Framing Device Demoted to Extra Slap-Slap-Kiss The Stoner Never Trust a Trailer Stalker with a Crush Fate Worse than Death Tagline Gorn Punch-Clock Villain Does Not Like Shoes Gone Horribly Right The '60s Curb-Stomp Battle Film Series The Reveal The Voiceless Honor Before Reason Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Guns Akimbo Morality Pet Antagonist Title Insult Backfire Driven to Suicide Jitter Cam Redshirt Army Accidental Murder Department of Redundancy Department Loophole Abuse Novelization As the Good Book Says... 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