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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You Killed My Father Rule of Funny Early-Bird Cameo Agony of the Feet Everyone Has Standards Big-Bad Ensemble Neck Lift Japanese Films Determinator aka: The Determinator Arch-Enemy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Happily Married Adaptation Dye-Job Pet the Dog Conspicuous CG Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Casanova Ungrateful Bastard Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ascended Extra Names to Run Away from Really Fast Horror Comedy Cain and Abel Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bound and Gagged Accidental Misnaming Our Zombies Are Different The Un-Reveal Brick Joke Italian Films Big Applesauce Crazy Jealous Guy La Résistance Psychological Thriller Bad "Bad Acting" Reality Has No Subtitles Cowboy Cop Drowning My Sorrows The Stoic The Dragon Mood Whiplash Historical In-Joke Married to the Job The Lost Lenore She's Got Legs Composite Character Woman Scorned Fate Worse than Death Parental Substitute Cool Shades Made of Explodium Pyrrhic Victory Sadistic Choice Jerk Jock It Can Think Documentary Music Stories Red Eyes, Take Warning Shell-Shocked Veteran Villain Song Action Prologue Romantic Comedy Twist Ending Call-Back Unusual Euphemism Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Genre Shift Stealth Pun Public Domain Feature Films The '80s Amusing Injuries Villain with Good Publicity Race Against the Clock Reality Ensues Cool Guns Cold-Blooded Torture Earn Your Happy Ending Abusive Parents Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Freudian Excuse Not Quite Dead All for Nothing Dies Wide Open Morality Pet Fanservice Refuge in Audacity Hate Sink Death Seeker Chase Scene Drives Like Crazy Beware the Nice Ones Blatant Lies It's Personal The Cavalry The '60s Intergenerational Friendship For Want of a Nail Precision F-Strike Canon Foreigner Guile Hero Dumb Blonde Properly Paranoid Actor Allusion Match Cut Break the Haughty Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Loophole Abuse Grievous Bottley Harm Mercy Kill Immune to Bullets Slashed Throat Even Evil Has Standards Adaptational Badass Femme Fatale Film Noir Historical Villain Upgrade Ax-Crazy Dying Moment of Awesome Belligerent Sexual Tension The Bad Guy Wins The '90s Anguished Declaration of Love Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality More Dakka No Name Given Casting Gag Sanity Slippage No-Sell N-Word Privileges Camera Abuse Closed Circle Meaningful Name Author Avatar Spell My Name with an "S" Love Triangle Wrong Genre Savvy Babies Ever After Bottomless Magazines Politically Incorrect Villain Very Loosely Based on a True Story Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Hong Kong Films Easily Forgiven Imagine Spot Heel–Face Turn Skewed Priorities Vitriolic Best Buds Insistent Terminology Heel Realization All There in the Manual Beta Couple Big Fancy House Alas, Poor Villain Gilligan Cut Only in It for the Money Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" British Films Bittersweet Ending Bloodier and Gorier Red Herring Authority Equals Asskicking Villainous Breakdown Antagonist Title Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Adaptational Villainy The Smart Guy Fanservice Extra Chiaroscuro Faux Affably Evil Bowdlerise Your Head A-Splode Ironic Echo Never My Fault Red Oni, Blue Oni Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Large Ham The '70s One-Man Army Film Series Crapsack World Bring My Brown Pants Stylistic Suck Disguised in Drag Genre Throwback Gold Digger Rule of Cool She Cleans Up Nicely Coming-of-Age Story Breaking the Fourth Wall The Great Depression Fantasy Films Asshole Victim Novelization "The Reason You Suck" Speech Adaptation Expansion Silence Is Golden Setting Update How We Got Here Vacation Films Costume Porn Combat Pragmatist Anyone Can Die Martial Arts Movie Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bullying a Dragon Taking the Bullet Peek-a-Boo Corpse Face Death with Dignity Made of Iron Malevolent Masked Men Camp Gay Armor-Piercing Question Five-Man Band Tap on the Head Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Epilogue Destination Defenestration "Shaggy Dog" Story Eiffel Tower Effect World of Ham Beauty Is Never Tarnished Mistaken for Gay Wham Line In Medias Res Adult Fear Non-Indicative Name Room Full of Crazy Shower Scene Half the Man He Used to Be Bi the Way As Himself Blood from the Mouth Determinator Eagleland Blood Knight Evil Laugh Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Not So Stoic Those Wacky Nazis Market-Based Title Informed Ability Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Friend to All Children Training Montage Undying Loyalty Noodle Incident Adults Are Useless Random Events Plot The Brute Affectionate Parody Chewing the Scenery Hooker with a Heart of Gold Big "NO!" 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Fantastic Racism Psychopathic Manchild He Who Fights Monsters Anti-Hero Disney Death Retired Badass Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun It's All About Me The Film of the Book My God, What Have I Done? Insult Backfire Actually Pretty Funny Protagonist Title Say My Name Moment Killer Double Entendre Superhero Hypocrite Manchild Wounded Gazelle Gambit Shipper on Deck Ambiguously Gay Time Skip Fake Shemp Honor Before Reason Celebrity Paradox After the End Broken Aesop Title Drop And I Must Scream Male Frontal Nudity Eyepatch of Power Artistic License – Physics Thriller Cluster F-Bomb Unspoken Plan Guarantee Gender Flip Fingore Almost Kiss Film Noir Index Deal with the Devil Sci-Fi Horror He Knows Too Much Distracted by the Sexy Ms. Fanservice Catch-Phrase Hero Antagonist Television Movie Index Dull Surprise Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Dogged Nice Guy Really Gets Around Lampshade Hanging Failed a Spot Check Deconstruction Oh, Crap! Psycho for Hire Evil Is Petty Adaptational Attractiveness Corrupt Corporate Executive Mama Bear Fat Bastard Major Injury Underreaction Final Girl I Have Your Wife No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Redshirt Army Death of a Child The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Danny Peary Cult Movies List Stalker with a Crush Too Dumb to Live timeperiod Wicked Cultured Plucky Comic Relief Needs Wiki Magic Love Drill Sergeant Nasty Men Are the Expendable Gender For the Evulz Killed Mid-Sentence Man on Fire NO INDOOR VOICE Canadian Movies Shirtless Scene Laughing Mad The Place Christmas Movies Index Leaning on the Fourth Wall A.I. Is a Crapshoot Berserk Button Never Found the Body War Is Hell Shoot the Shaggy Dog Pre-Mortem One-Liner And Starring Tempting Fate Important Haircut Serial Killer Translation Convention Reasonable Authority Figure Knight Templar Flashback Advertised Extra Dark Action Girl The '50s All Men Are Perverts Evil Brit Hope Spot Yandere Jerkass Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Anachronism Stew Decoy Protagonist Does Not Like Shoes Hidden Depths Bald of Evil Heterosexual Life-Partners Hero of Another Story Motor Mouth The Load Mystery and Detective Films Creepy Child Animal Title Index Loads and Loads of Characters Beard of Evil The Quiet One Artistic License – Geography Daylight Horror Air-Vent Passageway Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Mr. Fanservice Creator Cameo Idiot Ball Dual Wielding Obfuscating Stupidity Sir Swears-a-Lot Funny Background Event Improbable Aiming Skills Only a Flesh Wound Did Not Get the Girl Police are Useless "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Smurfette Principle One Steve Limit Pretty in Mink Kick the Dog Covers Always Lie Ship Tease Ambiguous Disorder Establishing Character Moment Shown Their Work Spiritual Successor No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Badass Grandpa Re-Cut Instant Death Bullet Woman in White Military and Warfare Films Captain Obvious Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Tagline The Bully Dark Is Not Evil Despair Event Horizon My Greatest Failure Russian Films Mr. Exposition Blackmail Monumental Damage Fun with Acronyms Would Hit a Girl Cat Fight Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Broken Pedestal Chekhov's Gunman You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Manly Tears Curse Cut Short Not So Above It All Even Evil Has Loved Ones Exactly What It Says on the Tin This Is Gonna Suck Framing Device Have a Gay Old Time Four-Temperament Ensemble Aside Glance Cat Scare Your Cheating Heart Slasher Smile Let's Get Dangerous! Bury Your Gays From Nobody to Nightmare Scenery Porn Product Placement Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Stepford Smiler Villain Ball Scare Chord Running Gag Science Fiction Films Missing Mom Big Bad No Antagonist Hell Is That Noise Awesome, but Impractical Love at First Sight Blonde, Brunette, Redhead '80s Hair Reality Is Unrealistic Arranged Marriage A Date with Rosie Palms The Remake Shut Up, Hannibal! Get Out! Crucified Hero Shot Heroic BSoD Serious Business Accidental Murder Punch-Clock Villain Alliterative Name True Companions 20 Minutes into the Future Badass Longcoat Anachronic Order Deadpan Snarker Cloudcuckoolander Star-Crossed Lovers Contrived Coincidence Dramatic Gun Cock Obviously Evil Gory Discretion Shot Revenge Brother–Sister Incest Epic Movie I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Small Name, Big Ego The Atoner Not So Different Papa Wolf Artistic License – Law Depraved Bisexual Fish out of Water Parental Incest Overprotective Dad Deliberate Values Dissonance Fatal Family Photo Silent Movie Deus ex Machina Offscreen Teleportation The Dog Bites Back Only Sane Man Black and Gray Morality Rasputinian Death Would Hurt a Child Rich Bitch Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Totally Radical Gone Horribly Right Romantic False Lead Freeze-Frame Bonus Daddy's Girl The Alleged Car Light Is Not Good Slap-Slap-Kiss Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Death by Irony O.O.C. Is Serious Business Fiery Redhead Credits Gag Vomit Indiscretion Shot Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bar Brawl Never Trust a Trailer Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sole Survivor The Starscream Obstructive Bureaucrat The Chick Make It Look Like an Accident Parental Neglect Dressing as the Enemy Defrosting Ice Queen Punny Name Dutch Angle Male Gaze The Stinger Sassy Black Woman Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Straight Gay Last-Name Basis Bait-and-Switch Defiant to the End Zombie Stories A God Am I An Axe to Grind Manipulative Bastard Faking the Dead Same Language Dub Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Paper-Thin Disguise Scary Black Man Naïve Newcomer Mad Scientist Video Credits Meet Cute Madness Mantra Take That! 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