Tropescilloscope: The Dreaded

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

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