Act first, explain after

Is there a trope for when somebody decides to carry out an action first, and explain it afterwards, perhaps if they sense that other people might disapprove if they were to talk about it first?

Repeat In Disbelief

Bob has just said something completely outlandish/stupid/important. Alice can only weakly repeat what he just said. Similar to Stunned Silence.

• In Kaamelott, after it turns out Percival of Wales isn't listed in the kingdom's records as a knight, neither under "P" or "W":
  Percival: What about under "F"?
  Archivist: Under? "F"?
  Percival: Well yeah, we didn't look at the "F"s. Did we?
• In Twenty Years After, d'Artagnan not only escapes Mazarin's custody but abducts him as well, then cheerfully shows up to Mazarin's valet to make the ransom demands.
  "He felt the need of making a trip in the Ile de France, and begged us—the Comte de la Fere and Monsieur du Vallon—to accompany him. We were too devoted servants to refuse him a request of that sort. We set out last evening and here we are."
  "Here you are."

Black clothes to hide

Is there a trope for when somebody wears black clothes to be stealthy in the dark?

Inventive smuggling

Is there a trope for inventive methods of smuggling contraband? For example, in Danny, the Champion of the World, a hundred and twenty poached pheasants are smuggled in an enlarged baby carriage, pushed by a respectable vicar's wife.

"Oops, I dropped a vital clue!" Live Action TV

Is there a name for the trope where carelessly-dropped items become vital clues or plot devices? Sometimes it starts with a clumsy moment where a character trips or collides with someone, flinging incriminating items into plain sight. For example, a woman having an affair accidentally drops the handkerchief her lover has given her, which of course is monogrammed with his initials and becomes a giveaway when her husband finds it!

In "Manifest," this happens *constantly.* To cite just one example, a character is confronted by a deranged woman who holds her captive and threatens to kill her. Fortunately, the deranged woman has dropped a pamphlet explaining all about the cultish church she belongs to, so the victim's friends know exactly how to track her down!

"What, did X happened? Oh, it did?"

Dialogue, when a character makes a snarky guess/question only to learn that answer, is "yes."

Examples

"Why so gloomy? Your dog died?" "Yes. This morning."

"How could you not see him. Are you blind?" "Yes."

"Hey, where's the fire?" "Old man Gary's house."

"Don't tell me, it was your evil twin." "How did you know?"

Common example is when heroes try to explain to cops or other authorities what's going on and can't be taken seriously and cop even jokes about the thing that is actually happening, such as telling the cop that the president was replaced by an alien causing him to ask if alien was a little green man with cow-stealing flying saucer...which is 100% accurate description.

Token Geek Hobby

A character who is otherwise your average Joe or everything that is the opposite of a Geek has one interest or pastime that is known to be on the geeky side. Not necessarily Closet Geek as they may fully embrace this interest and treat it as any other hobby they may have.

Seemingly important detail is said once and never brought up again

A detail you'd expect to follow The Law of Conservation of Detail and be a Chekhov's Gun but is never brought up again. The closest thing I can find is Narrative Filigree, but that's about a work having a lot of these. I'm not talking about a Red Herring.

Two actors for one character

Do we have a Trivia item when multiple identical actors play the same character, usually young kids? Not necessarily The Other Darrin as they're employed at the same time.

Examples: the Olsen twins playing Michelle in Full House, Connor and Owen Fielding playing Manny in Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

CGI FX Make-up

Do we have a trope for when CGI is used to alter an actor's appearance?

This isn't Serkis Folk. I don't mean various creatures played by motion capture. But instead when CGI is used to make an actor look decades younger, or a foot shorter, or to add particularly extreme scarring. Things that practical FX make-up wouldn't be able to do.

Concept Sequel

It is when a sequel, despite having the thematic elements and concepts of the original, doesn't use the previous characters. It could even take place in a different universe.

Think the Final Fantasy franchise or what they attempted with Haloween III.

Character who knows the future does intentional forshadowing in-story

A character who somehow has knowledge of the future makes an offhand or intentionally vague comment about something that's going to be happening soon, often to the bewilderment of the other characters and usually in some form of a warning; "If I were you, I'd tell your friends to steer clear of that hotel room tomorrow night, it's not going to pretty."

Become Alternate Self

When magic or technology or whatever means that a character temporarily inhabits one or multiple of their alternate selves' mind. Examples include how in PS 238 Tyler ends up in the room of mirrors that shows him what would happen if he had various powers, and in A Practical Guide to Evil when Catherine has magic happen that means she ends up seeing what would have happened if she'd made other choices during the beginning of the story

"X but Y" dissonance

A gag where two words with similarly positive/negative connotations are separated by "but", rather than one positive and one negative.

"Machine guns are cheaper than sniper rifles, but they're easier to use."

"Much like the food at Bob's Restaurant, it's not very good but it's expensive."

Character pretends to be asleep to avoid something

For example, Alice walks into Bob’s room in the morning and wants to talk to him. Bob doesn’t want to talk to her, so he pretends to be asleep. Or is this just People Sit On Chairs?

Live Through Decenadants

Do we have a trope for when a person (usually a villain) either attempts or succeeds in living forever/a long time via possessing their own offspring? An example I can think of is ICO, where the Queen has her daughter, Yorda, for the sole purpose of possessing her and taking over when her current body becomes too old and frail. This trope may continue for generations.

Searching for a credits trope.

Is there a trope for when the ending credits have a part dedicated to showing/explaining the Based on a True Story events that inspired a show or some statistics related to a serious issue the show discusses, a message (If you're trapped in an abusive household, please call XXX and...) but it's actually before the credits roll [i.e Not The Stinger]?

Something like this end credit clip from Tag but it's shown pre-credits?

No Such Thing As Bad Publicity, kind of Film

In The Full Monty, it's outright stated that one of the reasons their show sells so many tickets is because of the news article about them being arrested for stripping in a warehouse—this seems like it could fall under No Such Thing as Bad Publicity, but on reading the trope page, it seems like it's more popularity coming from explicit condemnation from moral guardians. Would the show's popularity due to their arrest still qualify, or is there another trope that could fit better?

Background Member of the Crew

Characters who are officially part of the main group, but receive very little characterization.

• Pitch Perfect: Three members of the Bellas (Denise, Ashley, and Jessica) get no real characterization. In the sequel, Denise is written out, while Ashley and Jessica get a joke about how interchangeable they are.

• Inglorious Basterds: Four of the basterds don't get any characterization and it's not even clear if they survive at the end of the movie.

Secret Group

An often small group of people must do something while keeping it an absolute secret and avoid being found out. A great example is Emma, Norman, and Ray in The Promised Neverland.