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