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