Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

The main brain of The Team. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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