Tropescilloscope: Stalker with a Crush

Character has an unhealthy obsession with following or spying on the person they're attracted to. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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