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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Becoming the Mask Dirty Old Man Chiaroscuro No Good Deed Goes Unpunished All Just a Dream Take That! Visual Pun Ambiguous Ending Meaningful Echo Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sports Stories Bunny-Ears Lawyer Black Best Friend Pet the Dog In the Back Freeze-Frame Bonus Comically Missing the Point Narrator Naked People Are Funny Kubrick Stare The Smurfette Principle Playing Gertrude "The Reason You Suck" Speech Kick the Son of a Bitch Love at First Sight Amoral Attorney Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Overly Long Gag Psycho for Hire Book-Ends Gender Flip Anachronism Stew More Dakka Bilingual Bonus Car Fu Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pay Evil unto Evil Precision F-Strike Breaking the Fourth Wall Adaptational Badass Soft Glass Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Jitter Cam Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass May–December Romance Dumb Blonde My God, What Have I Done? Dressing as the Enemy Daddy's Girl NO INDOOR VOICE Politically Incorrect Villain Stalker with a Crush Covers Always Lie Thriller Leave the Camera Running Face–Heel Turn Chekhov's Gunman Dropped a Bridge on Him Naïve Newcomer Oh, Crap! Good Is Not Nice Belligerent Sexual Tension Enemy Mine Romantic Comedy Hell Is That Noise Agony of the Feet Smug Snake All Girls Want Bad Boys Let's Get Dangerous! The Power of Love Recycled IN SPACE! The Place Zombie Stories Happily Married Cloudcuckoolander Improbable Weapon User Taking You with Me Bloodier and Gorier Storming the Castle Back from the Dead Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Here We Go Again! The Smart Guy Gratuitous English Word of God Mr. Fanservice Demoted to Extra Ms. Fanservice Bloodless Carnage Trailers Always Spoil Implacable Man Jerkass Has a Point Suddenly SHOUTING! Insane Troll Logic Easily Forgiven Disappeared Dad Fan Disservice Evil Is Petty Green-Eyed Monster Genre Savvy Mundane Made Awesome For the Evulz Ghost Fiction Hair-Trigger Temper Cowboy Cop Fish out of Water Affably Evil Papa Wolf Distracted by the Sexy Curb-Stomp Battle Camp Gay Skewed Priorities Irony There Is No Kill Like Overkill Obstructive Bureaucrat Dual Wielding The Voiceless Downer Ending Eiffel Tower Effect Rule of Symbolism Cool Shades Took a Level in Jerkass Drill Sergeant Nasty Jerk with a Heart of Gold Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Ax-Crazy Attempted Rape The '80s Drives Like Crazy Brick Joke Broken Pedestal B-Movie Self-Deprecation Annoying Younger Sibling Action Survivor Parental Substitute What You Are in the Dark Plucky Comic Relief Bar Brawl Femme Fatale Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hero Antagonist Artistic License – Geography Properly Paranoid Homage The Bad Guy Wins Chewing the Scenery Does Not Like Shoes Grey and Gray Morality BFG Evil Brit "Awesome McCool" Name Fantastic Racism Stylistic Suck Continuity Nod Needs Wiki Magic Love Fire-Forged Friends Big Applesauce Shut Up, Hannibal! Adult Fear Darkest Hour Loophole Abuse The Remake Anti-Villain Greater-Scope Villain Fun with Acronyms Bowdlerise Television Movie Index Vacation Films Actor Allusion Improvised Weapon Aluminum Christmas Trees Lampshade Hanging Gold Digger Betty and Veronica Hollywood Darkness Adaptational Heroism The Stoner Closed Circle Everyone Has Standards Ambiguously Gay Deconstruction Very Loosely Based on a True Story Action Genre Mexican Standoff Moment Killer Reality Has No Subtitles Rasputinian Death Kill It with Fire No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Punch-Clock Villain Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Morality Pet Evil Plan Four-Temperament Ensemble Vomit Indiscretion Shot For Want of a Nail Action Prologue Rewatch Bonus "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Stealth Pun You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Victoria's Secret Compartment Works Set in World War II Famous Last Words Lighter and Softer War Is Hell Left the Background Music On O.O.C. Is Serious Business Canon Foreigner Science Fiction Films Hero of Another Story And Starring Hidden Depths It Will Never Catch On Historical-Domain Character Madness Mantra Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Not So Above It All Brutal Honesty Canadian Movies "Well Done, Son!" Guy What the Hell, Hero? 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Bolivian Army Ending Bond Villain Stupidity Married to the Job Bad "Bad Acting" Men Are the Expendable Gender Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Those Two Guys Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold A Minor Kidroduction Immune to Bullets Framing Device Heroes Want Redheads Blood Knight German Films Slasher Movie Film Series Fanservice Slashed Throat Death Seeker Big Damn Heroes As You Know Coming-of-Age Story Humiliation Conga Armor-Piercing Question The Vamp Half the Man He Used to Be Twist Ending Henpecked Husband Shower Scene Mistaken for Gay Apocalypse How Pretty in Mink Bi the Way Undying Loyalty Jerk Jock Take a Third Option French Films Chekhov's Skill Sole Survivor The Alleged Car Sanity Slippage Bottomless Magazines Dies Wide Open Malevolent Masked Men Exact Words Flipping the Bird You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Big-Bad Ensemble Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Arch-Enemy And I Must Scream Tempting Fate Badass Grandpa Early-Bird Cameo Hoist by His Own Petard Boom, Headshot! No Ending Show Within a Show Only Sane Man Gone Horribly Right Suspiciously Specific Denial Novelization It Can Think Advertised Extra Older Than They Look Too Dumb to Live Race Lift Mercy Kill Face Death with Dignity The Ace Adaptation Name Change The Dreaded Karmic Death Re-Cut Offscreen Moment of Awesome Conspicuous CG I Need a Freaking Drink Bittersweet Ending Alpha Bitch Love Triangle Ironic Echo Auto Erotica Celebrity Paradox Crapsack World Deadpan Snarker Defiant to the End Sequel Escalation Toplessness from the Back Antagonist Title The Cameo Yandere Italian Films Intrepid Reporter Fate Worse than Death I Have Your Wife The Sociopath Stuff Blowing Up Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Really Gets Around Fatal Family Photo Biopic Dogged Nice Guy Rousing Speech Chekhov's Gun Heel Realization Blackmail Villain Protagonist The Hero Dies Knife Nut Corpsing Leaning on the Fourth Wall Pyrrhic Victory Your Head A-Splode Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Scary Black Man Country Matters timeperiod Noodle Incident The Reveal Kick the Dog Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Unusual Euphemism Retcon Manic Pixie Dream Girl Superhero Star-Crossed Lovers Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Idiot Ball Groin Attack Cassandra Truth Genre Shift Shipper on Deck Get Out! Last-Name Basis Off-into-the-Distance Ending Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Villain Song Vampire Fiction Meaningful Name Handicapped Badass Adaptation Distillation Abusive Parents Eagleland Drowning My Sorrows Dissonant Serenity Artistic License – Gun Safety Pragmatic Villainy Product Placement Psychopathic Manchild Informed Ability Disney Villain Death Your Cheating Heart Anachronic Order Ass Shove Red Herring Faking the Dead Redemption Equals Death Missing Mom She's Got Legs Honor Before Reason Protagonist Title Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sinister Minister Index of Film Westerns Artistic License – Military Early Installment Weirdness Unwitting Instigator of Doom Adaptation Dye-Job Villain with Good Publicity And the Adventure Continues Worthy Opponent Due to the Dead Black Dude Dies First Revenge In Medias Res Be Careful What You Wish For Rated M for Manly Expy The Load Awesome, but Impractical Epic Fail Psychological Thriller Retired Badass Award-Bait Song Smoking Is Cool Red Eyes, Take Warning Made of Explodium Killed Mid-Sentence Cool Old Guy Say My Name Mighty Whitey Soundtrack Dissonance Alas, Poor Villain Even Evil Has Standards Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer "Shaggy Dog" Story Dark Action Girl Bound and Gagged Retirony The Brute Did Not Get the Girl He Knows Too Much Department of Redundancy Department Anti-Hero Room Full of Crazy As Himself Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Tranquil Fury This Is Gonna Suck Didn't Think This Through Black and Gray Morality Big Fancy House Artistic License – Physics Same Language Dub Gainax Ending Dying Moment of Awesome Important Haircut Corrupt Corporate Executive Death Glare Depraved Bisexual Heroic Sacrifice Only One Name Cain and Abel Lock and Load Montage Evil Laugh The '50s Creative Closing Credits Double Entendre Only Known by Their Nickname Driven to Suicide Spiritual Successor Chase Scene Public Domain Feature Films Suspiciously Similar Substitute Adaptation Expansion Casting Gag The Lost Lenore Sassy Black Woman Anguished Declaration of Love Sealed Evil in a Can Bloody Hilarious Animated Credits Opening Offscreen Teleportation Silence Is Golden The '70s Crazy-Prepared Call-Forward Friend to All Children Never My Fault Broken Bird Christmas Movies Index Developing Doomed Characters Evil-Detecting Dog Captain Ersatz The Mole Small Name, Big Ego Make It Look Like an Accident Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Redshirt Army Adorkable Red Shirt Bad Boss Manchild Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Badass Normal Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Rape as Drama Red Oni, Blue Oni Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Cool Guns Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Obfuscating Stupidity Frame-Up Eldritch Abomination Dirty Cop Wrong Genre Savvy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Musical Wounded Gazelle Gambit I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Real Life Writes the Plot Card-Carrying Villain Super Strength Pragmatic Adaptation Serious Business Hong Kong Films Animal Title Index A.I. 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Wicked Cultured The Stoic Beware the Nice Ones Meaningful Background Event Totally Radical Big Bad Sci-Fi Horror Exactly What It Says on the Tin Establishing Character Moment Not Quite Dead Heroic BSoD Film Noir Tap on the Head Non-Indicative Name Even Evil Has Loved Ones Abhorrent Admirer Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Disproportionate Retribution Animal Motifs Beard of Evil Time Skip Reality Ensues Setting Update Bullying a Dragon Dark and Troubled Past Determinator aka: The Determinator All Men Are Perverts Decoy Protagonist Based on a True Story Hypocrite Instant Death Bullet Spared by the Adaptation Parental Neglect Action Girl Only a Flesh Wound The '60s Silent Movie Cat Fight Credits Gag Not What It Looks Like Brother–Sister Incest Camera Abuse Historical In-Joke Spanner in the Works Body Horror What Happened to the Mouse? All There in the Script Real Life Paper-Thin Disguise Stepford Smiler Maybe Ever After Insult Backfire Children Are Innocent Scare Chord Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Extremely Short Timespan Spell My Name with an "S" Never Trust a Trailer Authority Equals Asskicking Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Ship Tease Parental Incest Daylight Horror Cruel and Unusual Death The Great Depression A Father to His Men It's Personal Jerkass Put on a Bus Nice Guy Line-of-Sight Name Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Oner The Dog Bites Back Actually Pretty Funny Combat Pragmatist Double-Meaning Title Plot Hole Shown Their Work Mad Scientist Dramatic Irony Police are Useless Off with His Head! An Aesop 20 Minutes into the Future The Hero The Lancer The Casanova My Beloved Smother Reckless Gun Usage Accidental Murder Butt-Monkey He Who Fights Monsters Laser-Guided Karma Never Found the Body Dramatic Gun Cock Black Comedy Rape One Steve Limit Names to Run Away from Really Fast Loads and Loads of Characters Dramedy Fainting Adaptational Attractiveness Pretty Little Headshots Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Funny Foreigner Central Theme Darker and Edgier