Tropescilloscope: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits

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

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