Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

He explains the plot. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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