Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

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

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