Tropescilloscope: Only Sane Man

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

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