Tropescilloscope: Obfuscating Stupidity

Smart enough to intentionally act dumb. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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