Tropescilloscope: As You Know

Character explains the plot to people who already know it so the audience can hear it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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