Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

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

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