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