Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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

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