Tropescilloscope: Stalker with a Crush

Character has an unhealthy obsession with following or spying on the person they're attracted to. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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