Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

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

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