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