Tropescilloscope: Properly Paranoid

Characters suspect that somebody is after them. They're right. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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