Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

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

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