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)

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