On: TropeTwist: Trope-Based Narrative Structure Generation

[flanbiscuit]

Ah yes "Lecture as Exposition" is probably what I'm looking for.

That, and this one: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWormGuy

[dekhn → flanbiscuit]

Amusingly, the trope is both validated, and somewhat modified in the original Indiana Jones movie; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR7Kh77aNnU and the next scene, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT3m4LXq3b4

(and of course, that film established many modern tropes, such as https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretGovernment... top men. top.... men.