Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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

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