Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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

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