Tropescilloscope: The Quiet One

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