Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

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

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