Tropescilloscope: Poor Communication Kills

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

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