Tropescilloscope: The Dreaded

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

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