Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

A Thriller that focuses on characters' psyches. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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