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