Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

The sun shines on horror-themed stories. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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