Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

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

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