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