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