Tropescilloscope: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits

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

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