Tropescilloscope: Unusually Uninteresting Sight

Bystanders unfazed by the incredibly unusual. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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