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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Gainax Ending Adaptational Badass Dark Action Girl Maybe Ever After Shirtless Scene Sequel Escalation Dramatic Gun Cock Jerkass Shout-Out Red Oni, Blue Oni Conspicuous CG Advertised Extra Historical Villain Upgrade The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Final Girl Disproportionate Retribution Suspiciously Specific Denial Only a Flesh Wound There Is No Kill Like Overkill Villain Opening Scene The Cameo Bolivian Army Ending I Did What I Had to Do Love at First Sight Big "NO!" Getting Crap Past the Radar Adaptational Villainy This Is Gonna Suck Genre Throwback I'm a Humanitarian Does Not Like Shoes Papa Wolf Bland-Name Product Dropped a Bridge on Him Gilligan Cut Dirty Cop You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Rule of Symbolism Russian Films The Load Cluster F-Bomb Artistic License – History Bury Your Gays Camp Gay Naked People Are Funny Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Four-Temperament Ensemble My Beloved Smother Adapted Out Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Moment Killer Knife Nut Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Tagline For Want of a Nail Cassandra Truth French Films Reasonable Authority Figure Dark Is Not Evil Authority Equals Asskicking Unresolved Sexual Tension Put on a Bus Psychological Thriller The Stinger The Un-Reveal Intergenerational Friendship You Have Failed Me Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Token Minority Tranquil Fury Bond One-Liner Fate Worse than Death No Ending Laughing Mad Auto Erotica Artistic License – Law Parental Abandonment Off with His Head! Costume Porn Driven to Suicide Malevolent Masked Men Rule of Cool Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Frame-Up Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! He Who Fights Monsters Chewing the Scenery German Films Badass Longcoat Cain and Abel Diabolus ex Machina Antagonist Title Domestic Abuse Mind Screw Parental Substitute Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Lock and Load Montage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Dragon Gender Flip Accidental Murder Taking You with Me Call-Back Broken Aesop Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Big Fancy House Manchild Hate Sink Affectionate Parody Epic Movie Danny Peary Cult Movies List Offscreen Moment of Awesome Exactly What It Says on the Tin Super Strength Attempted Rape How We Got Here Bavarian Fire Drill Men Are the Expendable Gender Pimped-Out Dress Closed Circle Book-Ends The Reveal Names to Run Away from Really Fast Reality Ensues Continuity Nod Irony Action Genre Bait-and-Switch Novelization Serial Killer Disappeared Dad Due to the Dead Greater-Scope Villain Improvised Weapon My Greatest Failure NO INDOOR VOICE Spiteful Spit The Ditz Evil-Detecting Dog Made of Iron Black Best Friend Bloody Hilarious Heroes Want Redheads Parental Incest Early Installment Weirdness Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Death Seeker Insane Troll Logic Sealed Evil in a Can The Dreaded Rule of Three Works Set in World War II Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Idiot Ball Romantic Comedy Soft Glass Shut Up, Hannibal! Monumental Damage What You Are in the Dark Manipulative Bastard Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adult Fear And Starring Self-Deprecation Slasher Movie Meaningful Background Event Our Vampires Are Different Japanese Films Paper-Thin Disguise Word of God Children Are Innocent Dying Moment of Awesome Stealth Pun Improbable Aiming Skills Obviously Evil Television Movie Index Kids Are Cruel Romantic False Lead Star-Crossed Lovers Narrator Genre Savvy Facial Horror Depraved Bisexual Kick the Son of a Bitch Hero Antagonist Based on a True Story Beware the Nice Ones British Films Took a Level in Jerkass Get Out! Mugging the Monster Badass Boast Whole Plot Reference Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Armor-Piercing Question Pre-Mortem One-Liner Comically Missing the Point Easily Forgiven Your Head A-Splode Department of Redundancy Department Retirony Product Placement Blood Knight Creator Cameo Cool Car Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience An Axe to Grind Dwindling Party Does This Remind You of Anything? Rich Bitch Mistaken for Gay Historical In-Joke Made of Explodium Dogged Nice Guy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Camera Abuse Badass Bookworm Darker and Edgier Never Found the Body Index of Film Westerns Worthy Opponent Sexy Discretion Shot Gratuitous English Badass Normal Recycled IN SPACE! Only One Name Calling the Old Man Out Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Evil Plan Show Within a Show Wretched Hive Corpsing No Antagonist Fainting What the Hell, Hero? Mama Bear Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Retcon Sinister Minister Woman in White Vomit Indiscretion Shot An Arm and a Leg The Brute Rasputinian Death Scare Chord Silent Movie Villain Ball Cloudcuckoolander One-Man Army True Companions Kill 'em All Together in Death The Ghost Actually Pretty Funny Chekhov's Gun "Awesome McCool" Name The Casanova Becoming the Mask Overly Long Gag Music Stories Pretty Little Headshots The Power of Love In Name Only Creative Closing Credits Obstructive Bureaucrat Half the Man He Used to Be After the End Thriller Deconstruction Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane You Killed My Father The Stoic Take That! Cowboy Cop It Will Never Catch On Action Girl Suspiciously Similar Substitute Improbable Weapon User Death Glare Race Against the Clock All Men Are Perverts Those Two Bad Guys Death by Sex Did Not Get the Girl Abhorrent Admirer Wham Shot For the Evulz Bond Villain Stupidity Neck Lift Film Noir Unusually Uninteresting Sight Biopic Death of a Child Aside Glance Science Fiction Films Jitter Cam Big Eater Dark Reprise Mad Scientist Expy Let's Get Dangerous! Oh, Crap! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Gone Horribly Right Those Wacky Nazis As Himself Stylistic Suck Shipper on Deck Central Theme Decoy Protagonist Adaptation Distillation Dramedy Horror Comedy Unusual Euphemism Cold-Blooded Torture Anyone Can Die Fish out of Water She's Got Legs The Cavalry Red Herring Rated M for Manly Sanity Slippage Historical-Domain Character Fantasy Films As the Good Book Says... Interrupted Suicide I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Empathic Environment Vacation Films Flipping the Bird Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Cool Old Guy Parental Neglect Ms. Fanservice All There in the Manual Title Drop The Alcoholic No-Sell Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Riddle for the Ages Sports Stories Badass Grandpa Fourth Date Marriage Femme Fatale Sassy Black Woman The Alleged Car Actor Allusion Bloodier and Gorier Implacable Man The Lost Lenore Action Survivor Room Full of Crazy "Shaggy Dog" Story Groin Attack Corrupt Corporate Executive Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Is a Crapshoot Captain Obvious Offscreen Teleportation Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Redshirt Army Up to Eleven Nothing Is Scarier Deus ex Machina The '90s Abusive Parents Nice Hat Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ripped from the Headlines Red Eyes, Take Warning Henpecked Husband Spiritual Successor Really Gets Around Gorn Ambiguous Disorder Lampshade Hanging Mr. Exposition Even Evil Has Standards Real Life MacGuffin Only Sane Man Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Handicapped Badass Meaningful Name Adaptation Expansion Laser-Guided Karma Author Avatar Extremely Short Timespan Spell My Name with an "S" Redemption Equals Death Foreshadowing Broken Pedestal Chekhov's Skill The Big Guy An Aesop Neck Snap No OSHA Compliance Running Gag Evil vs. Evil Famous Last Words Same Language Dub A Father to His Men Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass O.O.C. Is Serious Business Market-Based Title Fatal Flaw And I Must Scream Drives Like Crazy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Author Appeal Fire-Forged Friends Retired Badass Big Brother Instinct Lighter and Softer Wicked Cultured The '70s Slap-Slap-Kiss Disguised in Drag Black Comedy Bad Boss Brick Joke Action Prologue Suddenly SHOUTING! War Is Hell Bar Brawl Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Scenery Porn Almost Kiss Fake Shemp The Mole In the Back Humans Are Bastards Alliterative Name Big Damn Heroes Foil 20 Minutes into the Future Throwing Your Sword Always Works Hell Is That Noise Apocalypse How Take a Third Option Enemy Mine Amusing Injuries Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bunny-Ears Lawyer Drugs Are Bad Heroic Sacrifice Early-Bird Cameo Deliberately Monochrome Disney Death Gold Digger Artistic License – Physics Meet Cute No Celebrities Were Harmed Beta Couple Bullying a Dragon Green-Eyed Monster Heterosexual Life-Partners Heel–Face Turn Film Series Earn Your Happy Ending Silence Is Golden Artistic License – Gun Safety Batman Gambit Australian Movies folderlabel All There in the Script Double-Meaning Title Pragmatic Adaptation Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Place The Great Depression Age Lift Make It Look Like an Accident Loophole Abuse Freudian Excuse Jump Scare Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Victoria's Secret Compartment Breaking the Fourth Wall Beard of Evil Heroic BSoD "The Reason You Suck" Speech Happily Married Artistic License – Biology Daddy's Girl Precision F-Strike Dumb Blonde Cat Fight All for Nothing It's All About Me Mexican Standoff Male Frontal Nudity Affably Evil Would Hit a Girl Match Cut Pragmatic Villainy She Cleans Up Nicely Developing Doomed Characters Canon Foreigner Curb-Stomp Battle Major Injury Underreaction The Voiceless Here We Go Again! 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