Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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

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