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