Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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

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