Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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

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