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