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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Never My Fault Woman in White It Will Never Catch On Adult Fear Artistic License – Biology Translation Convention A Father to His Men Nothing Is Scarier Very Loosely Based on a True Story Darkest Hour Hero Antagonist Super Strength Tranquil Fury Hooker with a Heart of Gold Off with His Head! Break the Cutie Genre Shift Calling the Old Man Out Good Is Not Nice Corpsing The Dog Bites Back Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Large Ham Cowboy Cop Black Dude Dies First Foreshadowing What Happened to the Mouse? The '70s The Power of Love Even Evil Has Loved Ones Heel Realization Noodle Incident Training Montage All for Nothing Crucified Hero Shot Credits Gag Dirty Old Man Bowdlerise Beware the Nice Ones No Antagonist Artistic License – Military Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Ass Shove Bilingual Bonus Jerk with a Heart of Gold Artistic License – Law Playing Gertrude Action Girl Adaptational Badass Big Applesauce The Load Your Cheating Heart Accidental Misnaming Sacrificial Lion Knight Templar Brutal Honesty Death Seeker "Awesome McCool" Name Token Minority Offscreen Teleportation Adapted Out Sole Survivor Make It Look Like an Accident Foregone Conclusion Nice Guy The Stoic She Cleans Up Nicely British Films Public Domain Feature Films Implacable Man No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Posthumous Character The Bad Guy Wins Pimped-Out Dress Would Hurt a Child Attempted Rape Visual Pun Humiliation Conga Gone Horribly Right Really Gets Around Only Known by Their Nickname Gorn Random Events Plot Thriller Downer Ending Creator Cameo Up to Eleven Man on Fire Zombie Stories Naïve Newcomer Dramatic Gun Cock Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bound and Gagged Badass Grandpa Sexy Discretion Shot Kill It with Fire Only One Name The Vamp Gilligan Cut No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Cool Old Lady Male Frontal Nudity Brainless Beauty The Dragon Kids Are Cruel All There in the Manual Plot Hole Eureka Moment Extreme Doormat Punny Name Flipping the Bird Beta Couple You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Roaring Rampage of Revenge Left the Background Music On The '50s Fake Shemp Police Brutality "Where Are They Now?" 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Deliberate Values Dissonance Not Even Bothering with the Accent Anti-Hero Defiant to the End Tagline Fire-Forged Friends Action Survivor Sci-Fi Horror Maybe Ever After Documentary Crazy Jealous Guy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Villain with Good Publicity Disguised in Drag Black and Gray Morality Broken Pedestal Nice Hat He Who Fights Monsters Gory Discretion Shot Interrupted Suicide Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Starscream Gratuitous English Motor Mouth Sinister Minister O.O.C. Is Serious Business Badass Bookworm War Is Hell Does This Remind You of Anything? Corrupt Corporate Executive Call-Forward Scenery Porn Evil Counterpart Berserk Button Never Found the Body An Arm and a Leg Market-Based Title Red Eyes, Take Warning Adaptational Villainy Cool Shades Rape as Drama Stalker with a Crush 20 Minutes into the Future Reality Is Unrealistic What the Hell, Hero? Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Face Death with Dignity Final Girl Badass Normal "Shaggy Dog" Story Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass BFG Unspoken Plan Guarantee Same Language Dub Cool Guns Word of God Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Curb-Stomp Battle Cat Scare Major Injury Underreaction Real Life Writes the Plot Bald of Evil Shell-Shocked Veteran Works Set in World War II Famous Last Words Taking You with Me Broken Bird Humans Are Bastards Whole Plot Reference In Name Only Exact Words Daddy's Girl My Greatest Failure Bait-and-Switch Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Race Against the Clock Parental Neglect The Sociopath From Nobody to Nightmare Animal Title Index Dressing as the Enemy Every Car Is a Pinto Small Name, Big Ego Ironic Echo Japanese Films Fanservice Extra Artistic License – Physics Adaptation Expansion Cat Fight Straight Gay Catapult Nightmare Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Earn Your Happy Ending Cruel and Unusual Death Facial Horror Disproportionate Retribution It's All About Me Developing Doomed Characters Coming-of-Age Story Smoking Is Cool timeperiod And I Must Scream Hypocrite Hell Is That Noise Genre Throwback Not What It Looks Like Wham Shot Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Dreaded Vomit Indiscretion Shot Stealth Pun Even Evil Has Standards Storming the Castle Death by Sex Damsel in Distress Batman Gambit Anguished Declaration of Love Setting Update Award-Bait Song My Beloved Smother The X of Y Revenge Eyepatch of Power Deliberately Monochrome Tap on the Head Shown Their Work Rule of Funny Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pragmatic Adaptation Video Credits Papa Wolf Suspiciously Similar Substitute Heroic BSoD Anachronic Order Amusing Injuries Bare Your Midriff Almost Kiss Shower Scene Big Eater Dull Surprise Babies Ever After True Companions Punch-Clock Villain Age Lift Big-Bad Ensemble Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Drowning My Sorrows Stuff Blowing Up Toplessness from the Back Meaningful Name The Alleged Car Shipper on Deck The '90s Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Ditz Retcon Ambiguous Disorder Dirty Coward Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Crazy-Prepared Awesome, but Impractical Silence Is Golden Black Best Friend Laughing Mad Scenery Gorn My God, What Have I Done? 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