Tropescilloscope: Captain Obvious

States what is blatantly obvious. (That just explained the trope!) (read more at tvtropes.org)

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