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