Tropescilloscope: Batman Gambit

A plan that relies on its victims doing what they do naturally. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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