Tropescilloscope: And the Adventure Continues

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

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