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