Tropescilloscope: The Dreaded

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

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