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