Tropescilloscope: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits

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

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