Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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

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