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