Tropescilloscope: Unspoken Plan Guarantee

A plan's chances of success are inversely proportional to the amount of detail the audience is given about it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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