Tropescilloscope: Narrator

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