Tropescilloscope: The Dreaded

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

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Grievous Bottley Harm Men Are the Expendable Gender Due to the Dead Badass in a Nice Suit Those Two Bad Guys Beware the Nice Ones Pragmatic Villainy Deconstruction Re-Cut Humans Are Bastards What You Are in the Dark Actually Pretty Funny Villain with Good Publicity Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Only Sane Man Never My Fault Early-Bird Cameo Dwindling Party Wham Line Gender Flip Plot Hole Dark and Troubled Past Genre Shift Fatal Flaw Drowning My Sorrows Fire-Forged Friends Historical Villain Upgrade The Oner Big Brother Instinct Famous Last Words Extreme Doormat Only Known by Their Nickname All for Nothing Authority Equals Asskicking Dull Surprise Heel Realization Babies Ever After Back from the Dead Epic Fail Have a Gay Old Time There Is No Kill Like Overkill Hate Sink Parental Neglect Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bring My Brown Pants Adaptational Villainy Flipping the Bird Stuff Blowing Up Rich Bitch Intrepid Reporter Big "NO!" Rewatch Bonus Instant Death Bullet Room Full of Crazy Those Two Guys Black Dude Dies First Easily Forgiven Brother–Sister Incest Framing Device Manly Tears Dies Wide Open The Stoic Unusually Uninteresting Sight Adaptational Heroism Adaptational Badass Earn Your Happy Ending Unreliable Narrator 20 Minutes into the Future Stealth Pun Cool Old Guy Only in It for the Money Deus ex Machina Badass Longcoat Knife Nut Stock Footage The Ace Actor Allusion '80s Hair Villainous Breakdown Fate Worse than Death Shirtless Scene Nice Hat Title Drop Determinator aka: The Determinator Stealth Hi/Bye Spanner in the Works Car Fu Bilingual Bonus The Lancer Lock and Load Montage Black Comedy Real Life Writes the Plot Captain Ersatz Naked People Are Funny Hypocrite The Bad Guy Wins Morality Pet It's All About Me More Dakka Thriller Drugs Are Bad Animal Motifs Twist Ending Historical Hero Upgrade Dropped a Bridge on Him Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Really Gets Around Refuge in Audacity Sports Stories Sir Swears-a-Lot Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Reasonable Authority Figure Show Within a Show B-Movie The Mole Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Voiceless Mood Whiplash Race Lift The Dreaded folderlabel Disappeared Dad The Chick Fantastic Racism Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Red Shirt The '70s Death of a Child "The Reason You Suck" Speech Token Minority Cowboy Cop The Casanova Accidental Murder Line-of-Sight Name Creator Cameo Facial Horror Pyrrhic Victory Gory Discretion Shot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face A Date with Rosie Palms Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Whole Plot Reference The Vamp Never Found the Body Took a Level in Jerkass Mad Scientist British Films Monumental Damage All Just a Dream Let's Get Dangerous! Word of God Character Development The Lost Lenore Bar Brawl Slasher Movie Freudian Excuse Curb-Stomp Battle Empathic Environment Death Glare Rule of Symbolism Red Oni, Blue Oni Enemy Mine Friend to All Children Chase Scene A.I. Is a Crapshoot As You Know Pragmatic Adaptation Smoking Is Cool Fingore Coming-of-Age Story Daddy's Girl From Bad to Worse Interrupted Suicide Dark Is Not Evil Developing Doomed Characters Expy Redemption Equals Death Artistic License – Geography Plucky Comic Relief Kill 'em All Gilligan Cut What Happened to the Mouse? Kick the Dog Video Credits Intergenerational Friendship Big Bad Duumvirate Naïve Newcomer Improbable Weapon User She Cleans Up Nicely French Films Vomit Discretion Shot Laser-Guided Karma Police Brutality Retired Badass Badass Bookworm "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Karma Houdini Important Haircut Broken Bird Shoot the Shaggy Dog No Antagonist Rated M for Manly Crazy Jealous Guy Action Prologue Crucified Hero Shot Market-Based Title Ship Tease Hypocritical Humor Evil Counterpart Abusive Parents Big Fancy House Pimped-Out Dress Shower Scene Overly Long Gag Punny Name Five-Man Band Your Cheating Heart Henpecked Husband Our Vampires Are Different Real Life Up to Eleven Sassy Black Woman Domestic Abuse Works Set in World War II Good Is Not Nice Historical-Domain Character And the Adventure Continues Getting Crap Past the Radar timeperiod Manic Pixie Dream Girl Dogged Nice Guy Eureka Moment Novelization Made of Explodium Big-Bad Ensemble Artistic License – Military How We Got Here One-Man Army Male Gaze Precision F-Strike Bound and Gagged Ms. Fanservice Stepford Smiler Kids Are Cruel Deal with the Devil Agony of the Feet Dirty Cop Hell Is That Noise Double-Meaning Title The Dog Bites Back Pretty Little Headshots Disproportionate Retribution Evil Brit Catch-Phrase Sequel Escalation Aluminum Christmas Trees Neck Lift Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Maybe Ever After Cruel and Unusual Death Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Sacrificial Lion Say My Name Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Cat Fight Groin Attack The Hero Spared by the Adaptation Tagline La Résistance True Companions Ass Shove Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mind Screw Retirony Ominous Latin Chanting Married to the Job Big Eater Fourth Date Marriage Bare Your Midriff Adorkable All Girls Want Bad Boys Dutch Angle Final Girl Mercy Kill Improvised Weapon Slashed Throat Faking the Dead Laughing Mad Super Strength Batman Gambit Leave the Camera Running Big Damn Heroes I Did What I Had to Do Serial Killer The Reveal Sequel Hook Green-Eyed Monster Black and Gray Morality Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Insistent Terminology Cassandra Truth Funny Background Event The Stoner Wham Shot Bullying a Dragon Malevolent Masked Men Fiery Redhead Bland-Name Product Happily Married Catapult Nightmare Exact Words A Father to His Men Tempting Fate Take a Third Option Our Zombies Are Different The Musical The Cameo Mugging the Monster Breaking the Fourth Wall In the Back Star-Crossed Lovers Advertised Extra Reality Ensues Pay Evil unto Evil Deliberate Values Dissonance Biopic Belligerent Sexual Tension Defrosting Ice Queen My Greatest Failure Soft Glass Adults Are Useless Stylistic Suck Mundane Made Awesome It Can Think Canadian Movies Parental Abandonment Sole Survivor In Name Only Femme Fatale You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Alpha Bitch Last-Name Basis Cold-Blooded Torture Crapsack World Hollywood Law The Sociopath Adaptation Dye-Job Artistic License – Law The '90s Leitmotif Blood from the Mouth Darker and Edgier Action Girl Horror Comedy Soundtrack Dissonance Hidden Depths Mr. Exposition Dirty Old Man Evil-Detecting Dog Oh, Crap! Half the Man He Used to Be Break the Haughty Not Even Bothering with the Accent Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Martial Arts Movie Truth in Television Dying Moment of Awesome Heel–Face Turn Distracted by the Sexy The Ghost Animal Title Index Badass Boast Shown Their Work Made of Iron Stalker with a Crush Not What It Looks Like Bowdlerise Greater-Scope Villain Romantic False Lead Anachronic Order Tap on the Head Demoted to Extra Determinator Neck Snap Small Name, Big Ego Expository Hairstyle Change She's Got Legs Rape as Drama Military and Warfare Films Anti-Hero Film Noir Index BFG Yandere Man on Fire Daylight Horror Alas, Poor Villain Ironic Echo Meet Cute Totally Radical Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Apocalypse How Darkest Hour Suspiciously Specific Denial Anachronism Stew All Men Are Perverts The Cavalry Beta Couple Make It Look Like an Accident Ungrateful Bastard Ambiguously Gay Psychological Thriller Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Contrived Coincidence Shut Up, Hannibal! Deliberately Monochrome Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Book-Ends N-Word Privileges Face Death with Dignity Casting Gag Bloody Hilarious Would Hurt a Child An Arm and a Leg Ax-Crazy Genre Savvy Grey and Gray Morality Posthumous Character Diabolus ex Machina Older Than They Look You Have Failed Me Closed Circle Heroic Sacrifice Pet the Dog Peek-a-Boo Corpse Pretty in Mink Dissonant Serenity My God, What Have I Done? Wrong Genre Savvy Fat Bastard Here We Go Again! Informed Ability Insane Troll Logic Leaning on the Fourth Wall "Shaggy Dog" Story Alliterative Name Ambiguous Ending Sci-Fi Horror Rousing Speech As the Good Book Says... 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Ripped from the Headlines Fanservice The Great Depression Bottomless Magazines Epic Movie Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Shout-Out Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Auto Erotica Needs Wiki Magic Love Cool Car World of Ham Blatant Lies Award-Bait Song O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dual Wielding Police are Useless Dramatic Irony Large Ham Adult Fear Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Manipulative Bastard Revenge Ghost Fiction Downer Ending Rule of Cool Action Survivor Obviously Evil Body Horror Romantic Comedy Skewed Priorities The Big Guy Mistaken for Gay Vampire Fiction Broken Pedestal Freeze-Frame Bonus Handicapped Badass Dark Reprise Left the Background Music On Once More, with Clarity! 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Punch-Clock Villain The Stinger Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The '60s Self-Deprecation Overprotective Dad Decoy Protagonist Creative Closing Credits Genre Throwback Together in Death Storming the Castle My Beloved Smother Setting Update Same Language Dub Corpsing All There in the Manual All There in the Script Accidental Misnaming Cluster F-Bomb Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Fantasy Films Villain Protagonist Beard of Evil Australian Movies Demonic Possession Death by Irony Chewing the Scenery Eyepatch of Power Foil Evil Sounds Deep Animated Credits Opening Bittersweet Ending Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Missing Mom The Brute Badass Normal Russian Films Dumb Blonde Film Noir Spiteful Spit NO INDOOR VOICE Faux Affably Evil Get Out! Foregone Conclusion Karmic Death A God Am I Jerk with a Heart of Gold Dramedy Silence Is Golden Not So Different Aside Glance Cool Guns Offscreen Teleportation Funny Foreigner Logo Joke The Faceless Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Rule of Three Playing Gertrude The Place Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Mafia Idiot Ball The Hero Dies Depraved Bisexual Almost Kiss Eagleland You Killed My Father Retcon No OSHA Compliance Bavarian Fire Drill Artistic License – History Everyone Has Standards Lighter and Softer Bond Villain Stupidity Scenery Porn Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Names to Run Away from Really Fast Credits Gag Creepy Child Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Quiet One Put on a Bus Calling the Old Man Out Hoist by His Own Petard Cool Old Lady Covers Always Lie Disney Villain Death Camera Abuse Not So Above It All Central Theme Author Appeal Department of Redundancy Department Fatal Family Photo Fanservice Extra No-Sell Villain Song And Starring Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Moment Killer Face–Heel Turn From Nobody to Nightmare Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Bloodier and Gorier Vacation Films The Film of the Book Hero of Another Story Madness Mantra Mystery and Detective Films Heterosexual Life-Partners Toplessness from the Back Implacable Man Does This Remind You of Anything? Obstructive Bureaucrat Mama Bear Redshirt Army Conspicuous CG Music Stories Narrator Amoral Attorney Badass Grandpa Bunny-Ears Lawyer Non-Indicative Name Noodle Incident Camp Gay Affably Evil Superhero Offscreen Moment of Awesome Too Dumb to Live Destination Defenestration Brutal Honesty Nice Guy Damsel in Distress Woman in White Death by Adaptation Call-Forward Arc Words Product Placement The Smart Guy Adaptation Expansion Early Installment Weirdness Improbable Aiming Skills Be Careful What You Wish For Science Fiction Films Politically Incorrect Villain No Ending Hollywood Darkness MacGuffin Kick the Son of a Bitch Gorn