Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

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

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