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