Tropescilloscope: Didn't Think This Through

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

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