Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

States what is blatantly obvious. (That just explained the trope!) (read more at tvtropes.org)

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