Tropescilloscope: Mr. Exposition

He explains the plot. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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