Tropescilloscope: Poor Communication Kills

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

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