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