Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

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

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