Tropescilloscope: Silence Is Golden

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

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