Tropescilloscope: Only Sane Man

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

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