Tropescilloscope: Silence Is Golden

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

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