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)

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