Tropescilloscope: And the Adventure Continues

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

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