Tropescilloscope: Only Sane Man

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

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