Tropescilloscope: Silence Is Golden

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

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