Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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

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