Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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

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