Tropescilloscope: Only Sane Man

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

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