Tropescilloscope: Only Sane Man

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

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They Really Do Love Each Other Big "NO!" 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Eagleland The Alcoholic BFG Retirony Mood Whiplash Black Dude Dies First In Name Only Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Pay Evil unto Evil Bar Brawl Rule of Symbolism Apocalypse How Rule of Cool Mundane Made Awesome Hooker with a Heart of Gold Nothing Is Scarier Posthumous Character Adapted Out War Is Hell Decoy Protagonist The X of Y All Men Are Perverts Artistic License – Geography Despair Event Horizon Dark Is Not Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Off-into-the-Distance Ending Cowboy Cop Male Frontal Nudity Say My Name Pragmatic Adaptation Shout-Out Horror Films Creator Cameo folderlabel Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Insult Backfire The Hero Dies Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Lampshade Hanging Dark Reprise All There in the Manual No-Sell A God Am I Creepy Child British Films Storming the Castle Hypocrite Parental Abandonment Annoying Younger Sibling Better to Die than Be Killed Celebrity Paradox Homage Cluster F-Bomb Ship Tease Left the Background Music On Kick the Son of a Bitch Breaking the Fourth Wall Horror Comedy Bolivian Army Ending What Happened to the Mouse? Scare Chord Villain Protagonist Deliberate Values Dissonance Cool Shades Rich Bitch Broken Bird Face–Heel Turn Spell My Name with an "S" Double-Meaning Title Character Development Fish out of Water Adaptational Villainy Spiritual Successor Mr. Fanservice Sinister Minister The '60s Slasher Movie Heterosexual Life-Partners Shirtless Scene Broken Pedestal Curb-Stomp Battle Scenery Gorn Blood Knight Dramatic Irony Becoming the Mask Animated Credits Opening Irony Soft Glass A Minor Kidroduction Smoking Is Cool Chekhov's Skill Narrator Amoral Attorney Foreshadowing Blackmail Big-Bad Ensemble Agony of the Feet Frame-Up Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Dragon Dwindling Party Took a Level in Badass Non-Indicative Name Match Cut Laser-Guided Karma Author Avatar Retcon Framing Device Grievous Bottley Harm Cool Old Guy The Lost Lenore Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Historical Hero Upgrade Jerkass For the Evulz Wicked Cultured In Medias Res Fainting Does Not Like Shoes Bland-Name Product Calling the Old Man Out Ripped from the Headlines All There in the Script Obfuscating Stupidity I Did What I Had to Do The Stinger Ambiguous Ending Music Stories Evil Plan "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Big Guy Random Events Plot Five-Man Band The Ditz My Greatest Failure Mythology Gag Silence Is Golden Composite Character Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Those Two Bad Guys Drives Like Crazy Bound and Gagged Insistent Terminology Evil Is Hammy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Corrupt Corporate Executive Translation Convention Police are Useless Trailers Always Spoil Sports Stories For Want of a Nail Hollywood Darkness Darkest Hour Very Loosely Based on a True Story Shipper on Deck Maybe Ever After Broken Aesop Spared by the Adaptation Toplessness from the Back Animal Title Index Black and Gray Morality Stepford Smiler Boom, Headshot! No Celebrities Were Harmed Alas, Poor Villain Italian Films Fun with Acronyms Crucified Hero Shot Dirty Cop timeperiod Evil Laugh Evil Is Petty Adults Are Useless Sole Survivor Adorkable Love at First Sight Neck Lift Expy The End... Or Is It? Really Gets Around Fat Bastard Zombie Stories Karmic Death Needs Wiki Magic Love Demoted to Extra Canon Foreigner She's Got Legs Happily Married Extreme Doormat Ungrateful Bastard Action Genre You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Video Credits Danny Peary Cult Movies List Shut Up, Hannibal! 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The Dreaded O.O.C. Is Serious Business It's All About Me Central Theme Action Survivor Loads and Loads of Characters Plucky Comic Relief Downer Ending Abhorrent Admirer Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Get Out! Yandere Daylight Horror The Reveal Intergenerational Friendship Bond One-Liner Here We Go Again! 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It's Personal Belligerent Sexual Tension Silent Movie "Awesome McCool" Name Air-Vent Passageway Animal Motifs Manic Pixie Dream Girl Punch-Clock Villain The Faceless Brutal Honesty Death Glare Good Is Not Nice Took a Level in Jerkass Bond Villain Stupidity Everyone Has Standards Fingore Bad "Bad Acting" Film Noir Made of Explodium Gory Discretion Shot Green-Eyed Monster Vacation Films Cold-Blooded Torture Running Gag Reality Has No Subtitles Unresolved Sexual Tension Wham Shot Romantic False Lead Crazy Jealous Guy Demonic Possession As the Good Book Says... Hidden Depths Historical Villain Upgrade Sacrificial Lion Dark Action Girl Eldritch Abomination Riddle for the Ages From Nobody to Nightmare Taking You with Me Mugging the Monster Only Sane Man Room Full of Crazy Big Bad Meaningful Background Event Whole Plot Reference Bring My Brown Pants Romantic Comedy Epic Fail A Father to His Men Vomit Discretion Shot Film Series Comically Missing the Point Recycled IN SPACE! Captain Obvious Star-Crossed Lovers Hero of Another Story Scary Black Man Big Applesauce The Sociopath Show Within a Show Once More, with Clarity! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fiery Redhead Determinator Accidental Misnaming Together in Death The Ghost Revenge Credits Gag Disney Villain Death Straight Gay Thriller The Smurfette Principle Department of Redundancy Department He Knows Too Much Badass Normal Big Damn Heroes Man on Fire Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Creative Closing Credits Sexy Discretion Shot Artistic License – Gun Safety Moment Killer Bottomless Magazines Shoot the Shaggy Dog Fatal Family Photo Suddenly SHOUTING! Insane Troll Logic Badass Grandpa Naïve Newcomer Men Are the Expendable Gender Instant Death Bullet Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Australian Movies MacGuffin Genre Shift Those Two Guys Author Appeal More Dakka Closed Circle As You Know Does This Remind You of Anything? Immune to Bullets Abusive Parents Made of Iron Cruel and Unusual Death A.I. Is a Crapshoot Idiot Ball German Films Woman Scorned Captain Ersatz Take a Third Option Logo Joke Coming-of-Age Story Roaring Rampage of Revenge "Where Are They Now?" 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Ambiguously Gay Historical In-Joke Sir Swears-a-Lot Pragmatic Villainy No OSHA Compliance Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Improbable Weapon User Let's Get Dangerous! Friend to All Children The Cavalry Fanservice Stylistic Suck The Power of Love Adaptation Distillation Plot Hole It Will Never Catch On The Dog Bites Back Take That! Mexican Standoff Psychopathic Manchild Evil-Detecting Dog Actually Pretty Funny Gorn "Well Done, Son!" Guy Improvised Weapon The Chick Covers Always Lie Obviously Evil Even Evil Has Loved Ones Cool Car Bittersweet Ending Butt-Monkey Handicapped Badass Depraved Bisexual Kubrick Stare Fate Worse than Death Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Camera Abuse Beta Couple Serial Killer Evil Counterpart The Starscream Didn't Think This Through Humiliation Conga Historical-Domain Character Have a Gay Old Time Four-Temperament Ensemble Race Against the Clock Naked People Are Funny Badass Bookworm May–December Romance Curse Cut Short Dirty Coward Sealed Evil in a Can Real Life Writes the Plot Hate Sink Exact Words Damsel in Distress Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Wounded Gazelle Gambit The '80s Would Hit a Girl Red Right Hand Meet Cute Extremely Short Timespan Sadistic Choice Artistic License – Law Beware the Nice Ones Freudian Excuse Bury Your Gays Failed a Spot Check Slasher Smile Ominous Latin Chanting Gratuitous English Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Place As Himself Gone Horribly Right Disguised in Drag Eye Scream Not What It Looks Like Psychological Thriller Attempted Rape You Have Failed Me Dressing as the Enemy Token Minority Manchild Put on a Bus No Name Given Grey and Gray Morality 20 Minutes into the Future Destination Defenestration Parental Incest The Atoner Catapult Nightmare One-Man Army Mighty Whitey Rape as Drama Arc Words Film Noir Index Neck Snap Unusual Euphemism Woman in White Deus ex Machina And the Adventure Continues Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Eiffel Tower Effect Developing Doomed Characters Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Adult Fear Married to the Job Tranquil Fury Shower Scene Biopic Asshole Victim Hair-Trigger Temper Batman Gambit Artistic License – Biology Genre Savvy Villain Opening Scene Every Car Is a Pinto Rasputinian Death Cool Guns Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Brother–Sister Incest Jitter Cam Loophole Abuse Faux Affably Evil Retired Badass Black Comedy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Slap-Slap-Kiss Deadpan Snarker Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Smart Guy Aluminum Christmas Trees Bald of Evil World of Ham Only in It for the Money Big Fancy House Stock Footage Male Gaze Military and Warfare Films Sequel Hook Defrosting Ice Queen Catch-Phrase I Need a Freaking Drink Unusually Uninteresting Sight Body Horror Victoria's Secret Compartment Alliterative Name Award-Bait Song Science Fiction Films Playing Gertrude Tap on the Head Off with His Head! Girl-on-Girl Is Hot All Just a Dream Offscreen Teleportation Artistic License – History Manly Tears Dropped a Bridge on Him Getting Crap Past the Radar Punny Name Nice Hat Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Conspicuous CG Hell Is That Noise Blatant Lies No Antagonist Refuge in Audacity Honor Before Reason My God, What Have I Done? Villain Ball Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Vomit Indiscretion Shot Oh, Crap! Smug Snake Freeze-Frame Bonus There Is No Kill Like Overkill Not Quite Dead Self-Deprecation The Bad Guy Wins What the Hell, Hero? Deal with the Devil