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