Tropescilloscope: And the Adventure Continues

The Heroes' current adventure ends with the start of another. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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