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)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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