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