Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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