Tropescilloscope: The Dreaded

A character defined by the fear that others have of them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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