Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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

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