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