Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

A Thriller that focuses on characters' psyches. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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