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