Tropescilloscope: Only Sane Man

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

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