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