Tropescilloscope: Leitmotif

Something/someone's theme music. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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