Tropescilloscope: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits

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

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