Tropescilloscope: Didn't Think This Through

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

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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