Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

Character has more to them than meets the eye. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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