Tropescilloscope: Properly Paranoid

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

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