Tropescilloscope: Defrosting Ice Queen

In personality, a cold person who warms up over time. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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