Tropescilloscope: The Dreaded

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

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