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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Cool Old Guy Hope Spot Storming the Castle Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Happily Married Word of God Smug Snake Alas, Poor Villain Artistic License – Physics Historical Hero Upgrade She Cleans Up Nicely Police Brutality Green-Eyed Monster Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Homage In the Back Chekhov's Gunman Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Sequel Escalation Crucified Hero Shot Affably Evil Extremely Short Timespan Smoking Is Cool I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Henpecked Husband Imagine Spot Undying Loyalty Even Evil Has Standards Air-Vent Passageway Biopic Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Peek-a-Boo Corpse Epic Fail Room Full of Crazy Let's Get Dangerous! Death of a Child The Mole Dwindling Party Here We Go Again! 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Is a Crapshoot Ass Shove And the Adventure Continues Hollywood Law German Films Light Is Not Good Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Our Vampires Are Different Poor Communication Kills Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Toplessness from the Back Chekhov's Skill Ascended Extra Mooks Shipper on Deck Television Movie Index Expy Adult Fear Punch-Clock Villain MacGuffin Oh, Crap! Jerkass Has a Point Ambiguously Gay Expository Hairstyle Change Evil Is Petty What the Hell, Hero? 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Butt-Monkey Bait-and-Switch And I Must Scream Dual Wielding Break the Cutie Retcon Soft Glass The Cavalry Fate Worse than Death Major Injury Underreaction Bittersweet Ending Bilingual Bonus Offscreen Teleportation Bond Villain Stupidity The X of Y Gory Discretion Shot Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mood Whiplash The Alcoholic Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dumb Blonde Crazy Jealous Guy Empathic Environment Final Girl Brother–Sister Incest No-Sell Adaptation Dye-Job Stealth Pun Hidden Depths Translation Convention Serious Business Blood Knight Horror Films Made of Explodium All There in the Script Spiritual Successor Death Seeker Those Two Bad Guys Properly Paranoid Freudian Excuse Not What It Looks Like Naïve Newcomer Based on a True Story Action Girl Does This Remind You of Anything? Darkest Hour Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Reckless Gun Usage Rated M for Manly Eyepatch of Power My Beloved Smother Bottomless Magazines Obstructive Bureaucrat Depraved Bisexual Adorkable Badass Grandpa Unusually Uninteresting Sight Pragmatic Villainy Historical In-Joke Babies Ever After Mythology Gag Villain Protagonist Naked People Are Funny Casting Gag Freeze-Frame Bonus Small Name, Big Ego Horror Comedy Fantasy Films Funny Background Event Hooker with a Heart of Gold Video Credits Intergenerational Friendship Would Hurt a Child Straight Gay Earn Your Happy Ending Beta Couple Brainless Beauty Loophole Abuse Bland-Name Product Heroic BSoD Celebrity Paradox Domestic Abuse Framing Device Cool Shades A God Am I Costume Porn Soundtrack Dissonance Sassy Black Woman Humans Are Bastards Dull Surprise "Shaggy Dog" Story Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Bloodless Carnage Nice Hat Training Montage Show Within a Show Evil Sounds Deep Sole Survivor Pay Evil unto Evil Visual Pun Unusual Euphemism Sadistic Choice Parental Substitute Amoral Attorney Gratuitous English No Antagonist Eye Scream Blood from the Mouth Genre Savvy The Atoner Face–Heel Turn Annoying Younger Sibling Politically Incorrect Villain Fiery Redhead Cluster F-Bomb May–December Romance Shut Up, Hannibal! Serial Killer Dutch Angle Ripped from the Headlines Car Fu Deadpan Snarker Manchild Ghost Fiction Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Guy Rule of Cool Cowboy Cop Groin Attack Anachronic Order Ship Tease Distracted by the Sexy Action Prologue Book-Ends Slashed Throat The '90s For Want of a Nail Due to the Dead Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Get Out! Left the Background Music On Hero Antagonist Gender Flip Heel–Face Turn Vampire Fiction An Arm and a Leg Enemy Mine The Stinger What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is Serious Business Playing Gertrude Foil Wham Line Curb-Stomp Battle Conspicuous CG The '50s Gorn The Brute A Date with Rosie Palms Drugs Are Bad Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Vomit Discretion Shot Nothing Is Scarier Boom, Headshot! 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Fainting Dressing as the Enemy Punny Name Bare Your Midriff Evil Is Hammy Credits Gag Christmas Movies Index "The Reason You Suck" Speech Country Matters Killed Mid-Sentence Anachronism Stew Kick the Son of a Bitch Big Damn Heroes Meaningful Background Event Red Right Hand And Starring Obviously Evil This Is Gonna Suck Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bad Boss Heroes Want Redheads Vomit Indiscretion Shot Adaptational Heroism Took a Level in Badass Auto Erotica Badass Boast Facial Horror French Films Broken Bird Black Dude Dies First Never Trust a Trailer Self-Deprecation Arc Words Calling the Old Man Out The Bully Attempted Rape Agony of the Feet Really Gets Around Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bar Brawl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas My God, What Have I Done? Bald of Evil Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Musical Every Car Is a Pinto Badass Longcoat Tap on the Head Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience All There in the Manual The '70s Tempting Fate Creative Closing Credits Getting Crap Past the Radar Only One Name Honor Before Reason Sinister Minister Not Even Bothering with the Accent Action Genre Does Not Like Shoes The Chessmaster Genre Throwback Adaptation Expansion Men Are the Expendable Gender Curse Cut Short Never My Fault Race Against the Clock Ambiguous Ending Idiot Ball Femme Fatale Laughing Mad Dramatic Irony Authority Equals Asskicking Sequel Hook Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Lock and Load Montage I Did What I Had to Do What You Are in the Dark Adapted Out Cain and Abel Adaptation Name Change Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ms. Fanservice Fish out of Water Big Bad Gilligan Cut Shout-Out An Aesop Beard of Evil Skewed Priorities Grey and Gray Morality Thriller Karma Houdini One-Man Army Fatal Family Photo Revenge Not Using the "Z" Word Taking You with Me Running Gag Department of Redundancy Department Meaningful Echo Your Head A-Splode Retired Badass Whole Plot Reference Not So Different Yandere Villain Ball Half the Man He Used to Be Non-Indicative Name Character Development The Power of Love Camp Gay Dramedy Badass Normal Bavarian Fire Drill