Tropescilloscope: Didn't Think This Through

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

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