Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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

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