Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

The main brain of The Team. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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BFG Time Skip Peek-a-Boo Corpse Fatal Family Photo Here We Go Again! Irony Insistent Terminology Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Vitriolic Best Buds Adaptational Attractiveness Undying Loyalty Ungrateful Bastard Leitmotif Hair-Trigger Temper Bury Your Gays Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Your Head A-Splode Punch-Clock Villain Age Lift Karmic Death Facial Horror Department of Redundancy Department Only in It for the Money Those Two Guys Eyepatch of Power Even Evil Has Standards Failed a Spot Check Hero of Another Story Unusual Euphemism Adaptation Dye-Job Training Montage Improbable Weapon User Blatant Lies Only One Name Evil Counterpart Christmas Movies Index Author Avatar Dramatic Gun Cock Woman Scorned Evil-Detecting Dog The '50s Tranquil Fury Creative Closing Credits Bald of Evil Catch-Phrase May–December Romance Motor Mouth Bloodless Carnage Red Shirt Rape as Drama Unwitting Instigator of Doom Very Loosely Based on a True Story Non-Indicative Name Hope Spot Woman in White Wham Shot Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Slashed Throat Suspiciously Similar Substitute Bloodier and Gorier Sir Swears-a-Lot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Children Are Innocent Guns Akimbo Spiteful Spit All Girls Want Bad Boys Armor-Piercing Question Pimped-Out Dress The Sociopath Jitter Cam Silent Movie O.O.C. Is Serious Business Big-Bad Ensemble Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Abusive Parents Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Stepford Smiler Reality Ensues Madness Mantra Biopic Demoted to Extra Throwing Your Sword Always Works Sexy Discretion Shot Getting Crap Past the Radar Cain and Abel Have a Gay Old Time Ironic Echo Redemption Equals Death Neck Snap Mercy Kill Defrosting Ice Queen Greater-Scope Villain Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Brutal Honesty Kill 'em All Playing Gertrude Downer Ending Noodle Incident Big Bad Shipper on Deck Offscreen Moment of Awesome Genre Savvy Exact Words Lampshade Hanging Manchild No Name Given Leaning on the Fourth Wall I Have Your Wife Alas, Poor Villain Shower Scene Mundane Made Awesome Thriller Be Careful What You Wish For Eldritch Abomination The Power of Love Stealth Pun Calling the Old Man Out In the Back Based on a True Story Deadpan Snarker Bond One-Liner Adults Are Useless Our Vampires Are Different Black Comedy Disney Villain Death Neck Lift No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Lock and Load Montage The Smart Guy Catapult Nightmare Black Comedy Rape Evil Is Hammy Horror Comedy Brick Joke Sinister Minister The End... Or Is It? 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Is a Crapshoot Evil Sounds Deep Film Noir Index No Antagonist Black Best Friend Chiaroscuro Works Set in World War II Jerkass Has a Point Cruel and Unusual Death Papa Wolf Death by Sex Line-of-Sight Name Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The '80s Dwindling Party The Dreaded Put on a Bus Disproportionate Retribution Cluster F-Bomb Big Damn Heroes Unspoken Plan Guarantee Outrun the Fireball Expy Overprotective Dad Closed Circle Face Death with Dignity Sanity Slippage Gold Digger Big Eater Accidental Misnaming Adaptation Name Change Annoying Younger Sibling Friend to All Children Arc Words Say My Name Stylistic Suck 20 Minutes into the Future Adaptational Badass Together in Death As You Know Faux Affably Evil Drowning My Sorrows Martial Arts Movie An Arm and a Leg Dark Is Not Evil Meet Cute Blood from the Mouth "Well Done, Son!" Guy Off with His Head! There Is No Kill Like Overkill Rousing Speech Malevolent Masked Men Shirtless Scene Sci-Fi Horror Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality As the Good Book Says... Almost Kiss Distracted by the Sexy Chekhov's Skill Green-Eyed Monster Male Frontal Nudity Real Life Plot Hole Heterosexual Life-Partners I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Eagleland Title Drop Manly Tears Make It Look Like an Accident Celebrity Paradox Poor Communication Kills Too Dumb to Live Cool Old Guy Cool Old Lady Bi the Way Knight Templar Made of Explodium Silence Is Golden Fantastic Racism All There in the Script Dark Action Girl Becoming the Mask Monumental Damage Ass Shove Artistic License – Law Anti-Villain Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Boom, Headshot! 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The Load Deconstruction Fatal Flaw Fiery Redhead Bound and Gagged Parental Incest Sassy Black Woman Air-Vent Passageway Whole Plot Reference Taking You with Me Dull Surprise Parental Abandonment Mama Bear Pragmatic Villainy Jerkass Laser-Guided Karma From Bad to Worse Bunny-Ears Lawyer Disguised in Drag Sequel Escalation Up to Eleven Cat Fight Due to the Dead Artistic License – History Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Suddenly SHOUTING! The Un-Reveal Index of Film Westerns The Cavalry Never My Fault Kick the Dog Obviously Evil Danny Peary Cult Movies List Early-Bird Cameo Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Coming-of-Age Story Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Break the Cutie Military and Warfare Films Villain with Good Publicity Crapsack World Mistaken for Gay Heel–Face Turn Rasputinian Death Not So Above It All The Dog Bites Back Diabolus ex Machina Kids Are Cruel Combat Pragmatist Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Setting Update A Minor Kidroduction Room Full of Crazy Easily Forgiven Drill Sergeant Nasty Homage Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane No Ending Recycled IN SPACE! Light Is Not Good Public Domain Feature Films Award-Bait Song Credits Gag Vampire Fiction Creepy Child Ax-Crazy No OSHA Compliance My God, What Have I Done? 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Foreshadowing Toplessness from the Back Badass Longcoat Aside Glance Super Strength All There in the Manual "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Arranged Marriage Adaptational Villainy Get Out! Beta Couple Cat Scare In Name Only Betty and Veronica Dies Wide Open Deliberately Monochrome Improvised Weapon Eureka Moment Didn't Think This Through Novelization Villain Ball Badass Grandpa Destination Defenestration Posthumous Character The Ace Obstructive Bureaucrat The Oner Police are Useless Horror Films Fourth Date Marriage Hooker with a Heart of Gold Famous Last Words Dumb Blonde Never Trust a Trailer Soft Glass Scenery Gorn Scenery Porn One Steve Limit The Bully My Greatest Failure The Chick Half the Man He Used to Be Cool Car Zombie Stories