Tropescilloscope: And the Adventure Continues

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

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