Tropescilloscope: Scare Chord

A single musical note (or more if needed), coming out of nowhere in order to enhance the creepiness of a sudden scene. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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