Tropescilloscope: Jump Scare

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