Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

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

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