Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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

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