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