Tropescilloscope: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits

Flawed and quirky team of outcasts who save the world. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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