Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

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

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