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