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