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