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