Tropescilloscope: O.O.C. Is Serious Business

They don't always act out of character. But when they do... something's wrong. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Not What It Looks Like Retirony Properly Paranoid Superhero Animal Motifs Badass Normal N-Word Privileges Manic Pixie Dream Girl Undying Loyalty B-Movie Meaningful Name Adults Are Useless Names to Run Away from Really Fast Determinator aka: The Determinator Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Faceless Dirty Coward Does Not Like Shoes Killed Mid-Sentence Dark and Troubled Past The Bad Guy Wins Reasonable Authority Figure Face–Heel Turn Advertised Extra Cluster F-Bomb Grievous Bottley Harm Adaptation Dye-Job He Knows Too Much Exact Words Catapult Nightmare The Musical Author Appeal No Ending Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Italian Films Demoted to Extra Alas, Poor Villain Vitriolic Best Buds Too Dumb to Live Shower Scene Black and Gray Morality Affably Evil Armor-Piercing Question Left the Background Music On Major Injury Underreaction Defiant to the End Suddenly SHOUTING! folderlabel Naked People Are Funny Self-Deprecation Obfuscating Stupidity Pay Evil unto Evil Guile Hero She's Got Legs Protagonist Title Evil Laugh Wounded Gazelle Gambit Car Fu Grey and Gray Morality Arc Words Rule of Symbolism Dressing as the Enemy Beauty Is Never Tarnished One-Man Army Wretched Hive Artistic License – Military Homage Adaptational Villainy Sexy Discretion Shot Mama Bear Motor Mouth Catch-Phrase Disappeared Dad Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Reality Is Unrealistic Straight Gay The Big Guy The Starscream Sassy Black Woman Insane Troll Logic Would Hurt a Child Big Fancy House Double Entendre Historical Hero Upgrade Only a Flesh Wound Face Death with Dignity Death by Irony The Un-Reveal The Oner The '90s Knife Nut A Father to His Men Destination Defenestration Lock and Load Montage The Lost Lenore Title Drop Drives Like Crazy Deadpan Snarker Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Loads and Loads of Characters Better to Die than Be Killed Action Survivor Costume Porn Death by Adaptation Did Not Get the Girl Affectionate Parody Camp Gay "Awesome McCool" Name Ominous Latin Chanting Shown Their Work Villainous Breakdown Stalker with a Crush Missing Mom As Himself Adaptation Expansion Credits Gag Determinator Insistent Terminology Drugs Are Bad Genre Savvy World of Ham The Quiet One Not Even Bothering with the Accent Only Sane Man The Place Tagline What Happened to the Mouse? Evil Is Petty Disproportionate Retribution Babies Ever After Bottomless Magazines Punch-Clock Villain Parental Abandonment Attempted Rape Bound and Gagged Obstructive Bureaucrat Made of Explodium Captain Ersatz Red Herring Jump Scare Bullying a Dragon Truth in Television Genre Shift Real Life Writes the Plot Friend to All Children Central Theme The Brute Crucified Hero Shot Gold Digger Heroes Want Redheads Meet Cute Dutch Angle Zombie Stories Only Known by Their Nickname Alliterative Name Creator Cameo Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Interrupted Suicide Police Brutality I'm a Humanitarian Mexican Standoff Large Ham Market-Based Title May–December Romance Aluminum Christmas Trees Implacable Man Antagonist Title Laser-Guided Karma Break the Cutie Cold-Blooded Torture Off with His Head! The End... Or Is It? 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Nice Guy Femme Fatale One-Word Title Plucky Comic Relief Taking You with Me Hidden Depths Parental Substitute Historical-Domain Character Animal Title Index Disguised in Drag Accidental Misnaming Evil Is Hammy Re-Cut Deliberately Monochrome Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Country Matters Daddy's Girl Adapted Out Would Hit a Girl Let's Get Dangerous! Stealth Pun Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bunny-Ears Lawyer Japanese Films Shut Up, Hannibal! Translation Convention Stealth Hi/Bye Fatal Flaw Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Great Depression German Films Insult Backfire Gorn Continuity Nod Parental Incest Noodle Incident Foreshadowing Brother–Sister Incest The Ghost Agony of the Feet Immune to Bullets Jerk with a Heart of Gold Madness Mantra Artistic License – Geography Amoral Attorney Ambiguous Disorder I Did What I Had to Do The Ditz Bloodless Carnage Smug Snake Serious Business