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)

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