Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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

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