Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

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

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