Tropescilloscope: Narrator

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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