Tropescilloscope: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits

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

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