Tropescilloscope: Five-Man Band

One leads, one contrasts, one thinks, one lifts, and one keeps all of the above from killing one another. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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