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)

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