Tropescilloscope: The Dreaded

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

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