Tropescilloscope: Character Development

A character changes over the course of a narrative. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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