Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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

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