Tropescilloscope: Unusually Uninteresting Sight

Bystanders unfazed by the incredibly unusual. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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