Tropescilloscope: The Dreaded

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

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