Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

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

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