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