Tropescilloscope: Didn't Think This Through

A plan has a critical, crippling flaw. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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