Tropescilloscope: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits

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

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