Tropescilloscope: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits

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

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