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