Tropescilloscope: Poor Communication Kills

Characters do not communicate with each other when needed, causing problems. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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