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