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