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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The Lancer Fat Bastard Ambiguous Disorder N-Word Privileges Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Vamp The Faceless No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Victoria's Secret Compartment Male Frontal Nudity Artistic License – Gun Safety Animal Title Index Australian Movies The Cameo Instant Death Bullet Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Creator Cameo Friend to All Children French Films Missing Mom Those Wacky Nazis Downer Ending Fainting Last-Name Basis Male Gaze Lampshade Hanging Sports Stories Re-Cut The Alcoholic Artistic License – Geography Punch-Clock Villain Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Leaning on the Fourth Wall Silent Movie Meaningful Background Event Off with His Head! 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Guy Fish out of Water Redemption Equals Death Our Vampires Are Different Vacation Films Obviously Evil Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cold-Blooded Torture Police are Useless Pyrrhic Victory "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Dumb Blonde Protagonist Title Laser-Guided Karma Deliberate Values Dissonance Unspoken Plan Guarantee Cloudcuckoolander Oh, Crap! Serious Business Batman Gambit Parental Incest Well-Intentioned Extremist Bad "Bad Acting" Pre-Mortem One-Liner Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Everyone Has Standards Names to Run Away from Really Fast All Girls Want Bad Boys Left the Background Music On Abusive Parents Jerkass Badass Longcoat Better to Die than Be Killed Immune to Bullets Slasher Smile Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Bowdlerise Too Dumb to Live Broken Bird Due to the Dead The Great Depression Horror Comedy Horror Films Tap on the Head Adaptational Villainy Heroes Want Redheads Curb-Stomp Battle Fanservice Extra No OSHA Compliance I Need a Freaking Drink Wretched Hive One Steve Limit You Have Outlived Your Usefulness It's Personal Death by Sex Framing Device Parental Neglect Drives Like Crazy Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Captain Obvious The '60s Unwitting Instigator of Doom Awesome, but Impractical Shut Up, Hannibal! Mad Scientist Once More, with Clarity! Spanner in the Works Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Determinator Scary Black Man Cassandra Truth The '90s Those Two Guys Dramatic Irony Only One Name Breaking the Fourth Wall Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cool Old Guy The Reveal Darkest Hour Not Using the "Z" Word Cool Old Lady Chiaroscuro Evil-Detecting Dog Silence Is Golden Married to the Job Maybe Ever After Hoist by His Own Petard Frame-Up Get Out! Bar Brawl The Power of Love Jerk Jock Military and Warfare Films Getting Crap Past the Radar What You Are in the Dark Peek-a-Boo Corpse Light Is Not Good Dogged Nice Guy Didn't Think This Through Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Armor-Piercing Question Big Damn Heroes Eldritch Abomination Dark Is Not Evil Ironic Echo Five-Man Band B-Movie Dramedy Intrepid Reporter Retired Badass Groin Attack Loophole Abuse Henpecked Husband Bittersweet Ending Call-Forward For Want of a Nail Evil Is Petty Our Zombies Are Different Dual Wielding Antagonist Title Evil Laugh Setting Update Adaptational Badass Shout-Out Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Cat Scare Villain Protagonist Black Comedy Rape Mystery and Detective Films Only Known by Their Nickname Knight Templar An Arm and a Leg Large Ham German Films Kids Are Cruel Half the Man He Used to Be Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Big Guy Red Eyes, Take Warning Have a Gay Old Time Hell Is That Noise Scenery Gorn Author Avatar Christmas Movies Index Pay Evil unto Evil Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Kubrick Stare Token Minority Woman in White Disney Death Hidden Depths The Ghost Brick Joke O.O.C. Is Serious Business Hollywood Darkness A Minor Kidroduction Attempted Rape Belligerent Sexual Tension Papa Wolf Shipper on Deck Bloodier and Gorier There Is No Kill Like Overkill Earn Your Happy Ending Mugging the Monster The Dog Bites Back He Knows Too Much Dark and Troubled Past Karma Houdini Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Accidental Murder Deadpan Snarker Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dutch Angle Bait-and-Switch Animated Credits Opening Freeze-Frame Bonus Match Cut Exact Words Cain and Abel Hate Sink Not So Stoic Ungrateful Bastard Big Eater Anyone Can Die Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Take a Third Option Translation Convention Damsel in Distress The Hero Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Eiffel Tower Effect Truth in Television Reckless Gun Usage Red Oni, Blue Oni Arranged Marriage Facial Horror Comically Missing the Point The Film of the Book Gory Discretion Shot Four-Temperament Ensemble How We Got Here Even Evil Has Standards Chekhov's Gun Anti-Hero The Lost Lenore Bolivian Army Ending Darker and Edgier Stylistic Suck Nice Guy Precision F-Strike Noodle Incident '80s Hair All Just a Dream Disproportionate Retribution Wham Line Flashback Camp Gay Badass Boast The Stinger One-Word Title Big Fancy House Call-Back Meaningful Name Up to Eleven Laughing Mad Sequel Escalation Spared by the Adaptation Drowning My Sorrows Wicked Cultured Naïve Newcomer Villain with Good Publicity Reality Has No Subtitles Historical In-Joke Mr. Fanservice The Bully Expository Hairstyle Change Evil Counterpart Final Girl Hypocrite Creepy Child Destination Defenestration "The Reason You Suck" Speech "Awesome McCool" Name True Companions Anachronic Order Rape as Drama Gratuitous English Creative Closing Credits Wounded Gazelle Gambit Genre Savvy Anti-Villain Title Drop Tempting Fate Epic Movie Spiritual Successor Hooker with a Heart of Gold Action Girl Meet Cute Not So Different Arch-Enemy The Place Imagine Spot Not What It Looks Like Same Language Dub Face–Heel Turn Adaptation Distillation Meaningful Echo Trailers Always Spoil Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Atoner The Cavalry Becoming the Mask The Quiet One Product Placement Film Noir Let's Get Dangerous! Television Movie Index Superhero Coming-of-Age Story Combat Pragmatist Establishing Character Moment Actually Pretty Funny Lock and Load Montage "Shaggy Dog" Story Documentary Black Comedy Death Glare Amoral Attorney Chekhov's Skill Ambiguously Gay The Oner Fingore Ship Tease Demoted to Extra Kick the Son of a Bitch In Medias Res Put on a Bus Scenery Porn Soft Glass Break the Cutie Determinator aka: The Determinator Children Are Innocent Sanity Slippage Unusual Euphemism Made of Explodium Say My Name Show Within a Show Man on Fire Malevolent Masked Men A Father to His Men Sadistic Choice Guile Hero Really Gets Around Toplessness from the Back I Have Your Wife Auto Erotica Diabolus ex Machina Rasputinian Death Pet the Dog Psychopathic Manchild Action Survivor Brainless Beauty Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Ripped from the Headlines Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cowboy Cop Even Evil Has Loved Ones Gone Horribly Right The Sociopath From Nobody to Nightmare Ms. Fanservice Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Not Quite Dead As Himself timeperiod Mythology Gag Rich Bitch Covers Always Lie Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Curse Cut Short War Is Hell Karmic Death 20 Minutes into the Future The Hero Dies Rule of Funny Super Strength The '80s I Want My Beloved to Be Happy All for Nothing Crazy-Prepared Gainax Ending Parental Abandonment Author Appeal Deconstruction After the End Affably Evil Blatant Lies Bavarian Fire Drill Costume Porn Black Dude Dies First Plucky Comic Relief Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Fun with Acronyms Domestic Abuse Reality Ensues No Ending Canadian Movies Villainous Breakdown Star-Crossed Lovers Bare Your Midriff Famous Last Words I'm a Humanitarian Animal Motifs Morality Pet Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Enemy Mine Dropped a Bridge on Him Beard of Evil Heterosexual Life-Partners Manic Pixie Dream Girl Artistic License – History Yandere He Who Fights Monsters Calling the Old Man Out Dies Wide Open Does This Remind You of Anything? Sassy Black Woman Ax-Crazy Blood from the Mouth Outrun the Fireball Improvised Weapon Adaptational Attractiveness folderlabel Dramatic Gun Cock Dirty Coward Expy Logo Joke Daddy's Girl Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass As the Good Book Says... She's Got Legs Shell-Shocked Veteran Brother–Sister Incest Evil Sounds Deep Arc Words The Stoic One-Man Army No-Sell Jitter Cam Decoy Protagonist Blood Knight Fatal Family Photo Humiliation Conga Faux Affably Evil Guns Akimbo The Voiceless The Chick Dissonant Serenity Extreme Doormat Monumental Damage Random Events Plot Gold Digger My Beloved Smother Alas, Poor Villain No Celebrities Were Harmed Character Development Visual Pun From Bad to Worse Break the Haughty More Dakka Composite Character Wrong Genre Savvy Femme Fatale Alpha Bitch Flipping the Bird Badass Bookworm Poor Communication Kills Overprotective Dad Contrived Coincidence Genre Throwback Took a Level in Badass Country Matters Daylight Horror Accidental Misnaming Neck Snap Unusually Uninteresting Sight Never Trust a Trailer Shoot the Shaggy Dog Empathic Environment Adaptation Dye-Job As You Know Camera Abuse Punny Name Double Entendre Pragmatic Villainy Overly Long Gag Take That! Posthumous Character Casting Gag Badass in a Nice Suit Babies Ever After The Mole Epic Fail Loads and Loads of Characters Hero Antagonist Public Domain Feature Films Martial Arts Movie Card-Carrying Villain Shirtless Scene Abhorrent Admirer Handicapped Badass Artistic License – Military Kill 'em All The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Rule of Cool Historical Hero Upgrade Non-Indicative Name She Cleans Up Nicely Only a Flesh Wound Tranquil Fury Killed Mid-Sentence Homage Big Brother Instinct Retirony Villain Opening Scene Insistent Terminology Depraved Bisexual Pretty in Mink Bloody Hilarious Bond One-Liner Asshole Victim Honor Before Reason Fire-Forged Friends Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fantasy Films Eagleland Intergenerational Friendship Dirty Old Man Serial Killer Sir Swears-a-Lot Artistic License – Physics Film Noir Index Evil Brit Neck Lift BFG Action Genre Nothing Is Scarier Informed Ability Politically Incorrect Villain Hollywood Law Properly Paranoid Stock Footage Leitmotif Romantic False Lead Rewatch Bonus Room Full of Crazy Mercy Kill Brutal Honesty Bond Villain Stupidity Vitriolic Best Buds Gilligan Cut Anguished Declaration of Love And the Adventure Continues Black and Gray Morality Psychological Thriller Big Bad Duumvirate No Name Given Cool Guns The Un-Reveal Rated M for Manly A.I. Is a Crapshoot Betty and Veronica Smoking Is Cool Italian Films Ghost Fiction Kill It with Fire The End... Or Is It? Tagline Straight Gay Only in It for the Money Taking the Bullet Cool Shades An Axe to Grind Bottomless Magazines Chekhov's Gunman Distracted by the Sexy Word of God Crapsack World Race Lift Conspicuous CG The Brute The Smart Guy Air-Vent Passageway Novelization The '50s Idiot Ball Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Never Found the Body Cruel and Unusual Death Woman Scorned You Killed My Father Your Cheating Heart All There in the Script NO INDOOR VOICE Video Credits The X of Y Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Celebrity Paradox Fantastic Racism Mind Screw Real Life Mama Bear Blackmail Worthy Opponent Eureka Moment Bilingual Bonus Self-Deprecation As Long as It Sounds Foreign Crazy Jealous Guy Moment Killer Bald of Evil Rousing Speech Those Two Bad Guys Be Careful What You Wish For Not So Above It All Captain Ersatz Never My Fault Badass Normal Film Series Villain Ball The Dragon Only Sane Man Training Montage Action Prologue Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dressing as the Enemy Heel–Face Turn Greater-Scope Villain Adults Are Useless Early Installment Weirdness Artistic License – Biology Beware the Nice Ones Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Zombie Stories Advertised Extra Nice Hat Science Fiction Films Funny Foreigner Every Car Is a Pinto The Remake Ascended Extra Offscreen Moment of Awesome No Antagonist Small Name, Big Ego Taking You with Me Disguised in Drag Butt-Monkey Back from the Dead Eye Scream It Can Think Fate Worse than Death An Aesop Happily Married Scare Chord Gender Flip My God, What Have I Done? Catapult Nightmare Hero of Another Story Villain Song Bring My Brown Pants Cool Car Major Injury Underreaction Aluminum Christmas Trees Bi the Way Suspiciously Similar Substitute Romantic Comedy The Casanova Pretty Little Headshots Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Vomit Indiscretion Shot Reality Is Unrealistic Bound and Gagged Adaptation Name Change Pimped-Out Dress Credits Gag Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sinister Minister Cluster F-Bomb I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Stuff Blowing Up Your Head A-Splode Dirty Cop Humans Are Bastards Interrupted Suicide Soundtrack Dissonance Japanese Films Affectionate Parody All There in the Manual Grey and Gray Morality Unresolved Sexual Tension Big "NO!" Death Seeker Hypocritical Humor Together in Death Ambiguous Ending Adorkable Dwindling Party Historical Villain Upgrade Jerk with a Heart of Gold Black Best Friend Smug Snake Slashed Throat Totally Radical Good Is Not Nice The Stoner Suspiciously Specific Denial Reasonable Authority Figure Unreliable Narrator Sole Survivor