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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Antagonist Title Cloudcuckoolander Names to Run Away from Really Fast Imagine Spot Bad Boss Mundane Made Awesome Heel–Face Turn Taking You with Me Affectionate Parody Jerk Jock Alpha Bitch Mercy Kill Kubrick Stare Overly Long Gag Hooker with a Heart of Gold Heroic Sacrifice Exact Words Dropped a Bridge on Him Annoying Younger Sibling Beware the Nice Ones Same Language Dub An Aesop Spell My Name with an "S" Evil-Detecting Dog Wretched Hive Historical-Domain Character Took a Level in Jerkass Eyepatch of Power Off-into-the-Distance Ending Canadian Movies Beard of Evil How We Got Here Insult Backfire The '80s One-Word Title Children Are Innocent Intergenerational Friendship Improvised Weapon Damsel in Distress Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Tempting Fate Translation Convention Brutal Honesty Artistic License – Geography BFG Enemy Mine Stealth Hi/Bye Chase Scene Abhorrent Admirer Noodle Incident One Steve Limit Implacable Man More Dakka The Alcoholic Unusual Euphemism Evil Counterpart Green-Eyed Monster Music Stories Heterosexual Life-Partners Hypocrite Deliberately Monochrome Epic Movie Pimped-Out Dress Poor Communication Kills Big-Bad Ensemble Four-Temperament Ensemble A Father to His Men British Films Male Gaze Offscreen Moment of Awesome Fiery Redhead Ambiguous Ending Famous Last Words The Un-Reveal Missing Mom Cassandra Truth The Place Actor Allusion Ghost Fiction Blood Knight Defrosting Ice Queen One-Man Army Everyone Has Standards Bloody Hilarious Take That! 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Death by Adaptation Love Triangle It's Personal Brainless Beauty The Stoner Cool Old Guy Easily Forgiven Call-Forward Mood Whiplash Driven to Suicide Left the Background Music On Not So Above It All And the Adventure Continues Call-Back Badass Longcoat Heel Realization Put on a Bus Villain Ball The Hero Death by Sex Mystery and Detective Films Flipping the Bird Bait-and-Switch War Is Hell Fainting Male Frontal Nudity Shipper on Deck Action Prologue Extreme Doormat Action Survivor Exactly What It Says on the Tin Double-Meaning Title Taking the Bullet Serial Killer Intrepid Reporter Alliterative Name Jerkass Animal Title Index Military and Warfare Films Evil Plan Vomit Indiscretion Shot Riddle for the Ages The Ditz Dramedy Large Ham The Casanova Bottomless Magazines Karmic Death Manic Pixie Dream Girl Double Entendre Would Hurt a Child Men Are the Expendable Gender Stalker with a Crush Lock and Load Montage The Smurfette Principle Pragmatic Villainy Villain Song Evil Is Petty Redemption Equals Death Sealed Evil in a Can Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Improbable Aiming Skills The Cameo The Cavalry Black Comedy Jump Scare Reasonable Authority Figure Demonic Possession Handicapped Badass Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Plucky Comic Relief It's All About Me Last-Name Basis Reality Ensues Death by Irony Japanese Films Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Room Full of Crazy Becoming the Mask Genre Savvy Evil vs. Evil Informed Ability Sequel Hook Horror Films Action Girl Celebrity Paradox Final Girl Blood from the Mouth All Men Are Perverts Blackmail Mistaken for Gay Body Horror Homage From Nobody to Nightmare Man on Fire Adaptation Distillation No Name Given The Lost Lenore Cool Car Humans Are Bastards Historical Hero Upgrade Adults Are Useless Italian Films Silent Movie Country Matters Affably Evil Not So Different Loads and Loads of Characters Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Smoking Is Cool Roger Ebert: Great Movies List As Himself Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Disappeared Dad Too Dumb to Live Bring My Brown Pants Mighty Whitey Drugs Are Bad Shown Their Work All There in the Script Combat Pragmatist Recycled IN SPACE! 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Foreshadowing Crazy Jealous Guy Dirty Coward She's Got Legs Every Car Is a Pinto Author Avatar Anachronism Stew Bi the Way The Bully Gorn Hong Kong Films Re-Cut Fire-Forged Friends The Smart Guy You Have Failed Me Didn't Think This Through Ominous Latin Chanting Love at First Sight Arch-Enemy Deal with the Devil As the Good Book Says... Deliberate Values Dissonance Pretty in Mink Ripped from the Headlines Anachronic Order A Minor Kidroduction Mr. Fanservice Slasher Movie Covers Always Lie In the Back Neck Lift Offscreen Teleportation Cool Guns Reality Is Unrealistic Death Seeker Christmas Movies Index Daddy's Girl Leitmotif Sinister Minister Bloodier and Gorier Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Biopic Deconstruction Rape as Drama Demoted to Extra Camera Abuse Hoist by His Own Petard Face–Heel Turn Getting Crap Past the Radar Match Cut Moment Killer Star-Crossed Lovers The Remake Retired Badass Non-Indicative Name Cowboy Cop Red Herring Red Right Hand A Date with Rosie Palms I'm a Humanitarian Boom, Headshot! 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Anguished Declaration of Love Say My Name Ungrateful Bastard Freudian Excuse Psychological Thriller Sassy Black Woman Sanity Slippage Cool Shades Bald of Evil Tranquil Fury This Is Gonna Suck Idiot Ball Betty and Veronica The Chessmaster Historical In-Joke Your Cheating Heart Credits Gag Card-Carrying Villain Failed a Spot Check Throwing Your Sword Always Works Honor Before Reason Woman Scorned Aluminum Christmas Trees Needs Wiki Magic Love Rousing Speech Silence Is Golden Fourth Date Marriage Those Two Guys Hero Antagonist Superhero Composite Character Punny Name Conspicuous CG Leave the Camera Running Never Found the Body Artistic License – Law Would Hit a Girl Product Placement Amoral Attorney Slasher Smile Reckless Gun Usage Morality Pet Paper-Thin Disguise Alas, Poor Villain Age Lift Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fantasy Films Broken Aesop Black Best Friend Cain and Abel Action Genre Disproportionate Retribution Insistent Terminology Playing Gertrude Does Not Like Shoes Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Curb-Stomp Battle Five-Man Band I Did What I Had to Do Index of Film Westerns Stylistic Suck Suspiciously Similar Substitute Straight Gay Half the Man He Used to Be Berserk Button Adaptation Name Change Precision F-Strike Badass in a Nice Suit Character Development Funny Foreigner I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Film Noir Index Bowdlerise There Is No Kill Like Overkill Let's Get Dangerous! Made of Iron Wham Line Suspiciously Specific Denial Broken Pedestal Scary Black Man Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Real Life Writes the Plot Car Fu Funny Background Event Not Quite Dead Genre Throwback "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Pretty Little Headshots Bunny-Ears Lawyer Naked People Are Funny Agony of the Feet Gilligan Cut Chekhov's Gun Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Psychopathic Manchild The Sociopath Take a Third Option Chewing the Scenery Arranged Marriage Bound and Gagged Drowning My Sorrows Toplessness from the Back The Oner Video Credits Jerkass Has a Point The '60s Slap-Slap-Kiss Evil Is Hammy You Killed My Father Authority Equals Asskicking Stealth Pun Laser-Guided Karma The Voiceless Dies Wide Open Obviously Evil Unreliable Narrator Expository Hairstyle Change Knight Templar Politically Incorrect Villain Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Gory Discretion Shot The Stoic An Arm and a Leg Spared by the Adaptation Chiaroscuro Cool Old Lady Dramatic Gun Cock The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Pragmatic Adaptation B-Movie Accidental Murder Crapsack World An Axe to Grind Time Skip Instant Death Bullet Smug Snake Bury Your Gays Australian Movies Bond One-Liner The Dog Bites Back He Who Fights Monsters Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday '80s Hair All Just a Dream Big Fancy House Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Badass Normal Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Brother–Sister Incest Make It Look Like an Accident Happily Married Downer Ending Black Comedy Rape Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fate Worse than Death I Need a Freaking Drink Fake Shemp Parental Abandonment Parental Substitute The Faceless Roaring Rampage of Revenge French Films Hollywood Darkness Crucified Hero Shot Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Air-Vent Passageway Fish out of Water Once More, with Clarity! Dying Moment of Awesome MacGuffin Unresolved Sexual Tension The Lancer Contrived Coincidence Fantastic Racism Chekhov's Skill Dutch Angle Drives Like Crazy Documentary Ironic Echo Determinator Crazy-Prepared Meaningful Echo Refuge in Audacity Death Glare Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Light Is Not Good Dual Wielding No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Breaking the Fourth Wall Bavarian Fire Drill Wounded Gazelle Gambit Shirtless Scene Evil Brit Cruel and Unusual Death The '50s "The Reason You Suck" Speech Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Market-Based Title Big Applesauce Be Careful What You Wish For Nice Guy Badass Grandpa Faking the Dead Major Injury Underreaction Running Gag Romantic False Lead Truth in Television Comically Missing the Point Older Than They Look What Happened to the Mouse? Creator Cameo Broken Bird Visual Pun Mooks The Load Early Installment Weirdness Monumental Damage Bloodless Carnage Humiliation Conga Villainous Breakdown Femme Fatale Sequel Escalation For the Evulz Freeze-Frame Bonus May–December Romance Properly Paranoid Really Gets Around Manly Tears Defiant to the End Meaningful Background Event In Medias Res Jerk with a Heart of Gold Meet Cute Camp Gay Mad Scientist Logo Joke Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Laughing Mad Stepford Smiler Dark Is Not Evil Distracted by the Sexy From Bad to Worse Soft Glass Sexy Discretion Shot Adaptational Villainy Casting Gag Adorkable What the Hell, Hero? Public Domain Feature Films Artistic License – Military Hell Is That Noise Have a Gay Old Time Bond Villain Stupidity Unusually Uninteresting Sight No-Sell Rule of Symbolism Cluster F-Bomb Evil Laugh Villain Protagonist Anti-Villain Adaptation Expansion Foil Heroic BSoD Hypocritical Humor Big Bad Mythology Gag Flashback The End... Or Is It? Greater-Scope Villain Rewatch Bonus Heroes Want Redheads Drill Sergeant Nasty Ambiguous Disorder The Quiet One Accidental Misnaming Evil Sounds Deep Kids Are Cruel Outrun the Fireball Adaptational Attractiveness Rule of Three Horror Comedy The Power of Love The Brute Ass Shove Eagleland Depraved Bisexual Never My Fault Dark Action Girl In Name Only Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bad "Bad Acting" Here We Go Again! Not So Stoic Madness Mantra Darkest Hour Mama Bear Show Within a Show Spiritual Successor Manchild She Cleans Up Nicely No Ending Small Name, Big Ego Fun with Acronyms Kick the Son of a Bitch "Shaggy Dog" Story Kill 'em All Took a Level in Badass Good Is Not Nice Eye Scream Super Strength Gone Horribly Right Stuff Blowing Up All Girls Want Bad Boys Only in It for the Money Big Eater Animated Credits Opening Knife Nut Author Appeal Dwindling Party Death of a Child Almost Kiss Scare Chord The Bad Guy Wins Only One Name For Want of a Nail Catch-Phrase Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Important Haircut Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Immune to Bullets Hero of Another Story What You Are in the Dark The Alleged Car Dirty Cop Belligerent Sexual Tension Reality Has No Subtitles Better to Die than Be Killed Not Even Bothering with the Accent Up to Eleven Break the Cutie Pay Evil unto Evil Never Trust a Trailer Awesome, but Impractical Gainax Ending Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Film of the Book Spiteful Spit Punch-Clock Villain Revenge The Musical Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Wham Shot Hate Sink Interrupted Suicide Face Death with Dignity Title Drop Narrator Costume Porn Groin Attack Beauty Is Never Tarnished Ship Tease Auto Erotica Continuity Nod Police Brutality Grievous Bottley Harm Naïve Newcomer Off with His Head! 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