Tropescilloscope: Only Sane Man

The one rational character in a group of weirdos. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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