Tropescilloscope: Silence Is Golden

Intentionally leaving out the sound for artistic effect. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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