Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

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

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