Castle (TV series)/Tropes A To D: Difference between revisions

** Castle delivers another one to Beckett in the Season 4 finale as part of a desperate attempt to both convince Beckett to drop the investigation into her shooting / her mother's murder and as part of his justifying why he kept the knowledge of his contact secret from her. {{spoiler|At the end, while she doesn't actually say the word, Beckett's declaration of her feelings to Castle is this trope in almost every other respect.}}

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|Captain Montgomery in the Season 3 finale.}}

* [[Arc Words]]: "Always."

** Season 4, ep 23 is named "Always." Gee, wonder what ''that'' will be about...

{{quote| '''Castle:''' ''[claps hands]'' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|She hated]] [[Barack Obama|Obama]]!<br />

'''Beckett:''' (ignores him) }}

{{quote| '''Kay Cappuchio:''' He could have seen me in the shower! He could have seen me in bed with Reggie! He could have seen me without my makeup!}}

* [[Artistic License Astronomy]]: The episode with the "alien abductions" features a radio astronomer involved with SETI. One plot point is that the victim was following an anomalous signal that turns out to have been a {{spoiler|Chinese spy}} satellite and thinks it might be an alien signal. Radio astronomers have to be careful to eliminate satellites first thing and have a number of ways to do ''just that''. No professional astronomer would be confused, titillated, or even momentarily stymied by a satellite. Well, maybe titillated. For giggles. {{spoiler|The plot did also involve her being subject to various mind-games, truth drugs and fake abduction techniques, however, which might have explained her disorientation and confusion.}}

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: [[Ladykiller in Love|Castle]] and [[Broken Bird|Beckett]]. Oh so much.

* [[Benevolent Boss]]:

** In the Season 3 finale. It is discovered that {{spoiler|he is the missing 'third cop' who ransomed gangsters in the case of Beckett's mother. Lockwood threatens that he will kill his family unless he lures Beckett into a trap. Seemingly, he does, and Beckett falls into it, but he was actually luring Lockwood into a trap. He takes Lockwood's crew by surprise and kills three of them, before being fatally shot by Lockwood. And he still manages to take Lockwood out with him.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|This is where I make my stand.}}}}

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Medical examiner Lanie Parish, Kate's only friend seen in the show, is a sassy black woman.

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in "Under The Gun," where Ryan jokes that Esposito would be the first to die in a horror movie as he was cocky ''and'' Hispanic. {{spoiler|Happens for real, when Montgomery is the first (and so far only) member of the main cast to die.}}

** "Kill the Messenger" subtly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this; Alexis is helping her grandmother create what the grandmother refers to as a [[My Space|My]][[Face Book|Face]] account. Alexis then neatly obscures the "real" name of the networking site:

{{quote| '''Castle''': Don't you mean a --<br />

** "Setup" begins and ends with Castle and Beckett, locked together in an isolated room {{spoiler|(quarantine chamber, freezer)}}, staring at each other in horror after making an unpleasant discovery.

** The two photos of Jane the victim that Ryan hands to Ben Lee in "Kick the Ballistics."

{{quote| '''Ryan''': '' {{spoiler|To a political campaign manager arrested for murder}}'' You can stop running, bro. The campaign's over.<br />

'''Castle''': ''[Looks at Ryan approvingly]'' Ooh! Yes!<br />

** He [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it in "Famous Last Words" as who he'd pick as the murderer in a particularly tricky part of solving the case. The victim here didn't even ''have'' one.

** Averted in "A Dance with Death". Surprisingly, the trope is not brought up at all by Castle this time.

** It's mostly subverted: [[Papa Wolf|Castle is looking out for his daughter]] and knows how to handle most situations like a responsible adult, but his [[Adult Child]] side carries over into his parenting.

* [[Bulletproof Vest]]: Castle gets himself a custom one that says "WRITER". Subverted, however, as he's not shot or even shot at while wearing it. He wears it in subsequent seasons, and it's included in the opening montage. Yay for continuity!

** In "47 Seconds", after thinking about how short life is after a bomb explodes in the middle of a protest, Castle is ready to tell Beckett his feelings for her (and she's smiling and ready to hear it), but he gets interrupted by Ryan. Apparently, Beckett was shocked by the experience too and, later in the same episode, tried to open up to him, but she's interrupted by Esposito. Castle later accidentally discovers that {{spoiler|Kate remembers what happened after she was shot}}, which makes him stop trying to tell her.

** {{spoiler|Averted again in "Always". Castle tells Beckett that he loves her, and, after a [[Love Epiphany]] after nearly dying, Beckett tells Castle she loves him.}}

** While not necessarily the normal definition of a cast showoff, "Kill Shot" gives Jon Huertas (Esposito) an opportunity to show off his military training and knowledge.

** And in "Blue Butterfly", Lanie (well, a fictional version, sorta; let's just say Tamala Jones and end it at that) does a few song numbers. And wow, she's pretty darn good.

** Stana Katic got to impersonate a Russian accent; one of several Slavic languages she actually speaks in real life.

* [[Casual Kink]]:

** Just about all of "The Mistress Always Spanks Twice" but especially...

{{quote| '''Beckett:''' Bondage cuffs, custom made. Looks like our killer liked public play.<br />

'''Beckett''': I do have this one thing with ice cubes.<br />

'''Castle''': (''steadies himself against a display window'') }}

** Also, Castle has offhandedly mentioned that his safe word is "apples." [[Continuity Nod|Twice thus far.]]

** At the end of "Cuffed", Beckett suggests the possibility that she might be amenable to {{spoiler|cuffing herself to Castle}}. Castle's face says everything.

{{quote| '''Castle:''' Cyanide Capsule!. (sweeps item from man's mouth) Eww, gum.}}

** Played absolutely straight in "Head Case" {{spoiler|when a murderer commits suicide by this method in order to join her husband in death/cryonic freezing after killing him.}}

* [[The Dandy]]: Castle is ''such'' a metrosexual. He's starting to influence Ryan and Esposito, amusingly enough.

{{quote| '''Castle''': (searching an apartment) You see this moulding? That's the original wood. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt6XDPQZrj8 Gorgeous!] I bet the bathrooms have marble wainscoting.}}

** ''[http://www.richardcastle.net/news/storm-graphic-novel Deadly Storm]'' is a graphic novel "adaptation" of the first Derrick Storm novel. ''Storm Rises'' has also been announced.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Averted in "Vampire Weekend". Crow is bisexual and, as a member of a vampire cult, very strange, but he's the victim, not the villain. The killer hoped to take advantage of this trope to pin the murder on his freaky friends.

** Det. Ryan in "The Double Down" after "So much for my famous warm honeymilk with Jenny tonight." This is mentioned in a subsequent episode when Ryan is introduced to a Vice cop that Esposito knows, and right after the introduction the Vice cops asks Esposito "Honeymilk?"

** Also in "Sucker Punch", when the team is investigating a late night infomercial host who's "I'll make you rich!" program -- which Ryan has been slightly suckered into -- is a front for heroin smuggling:

* [[Distracted By My Own Sexy]]: During an investigation, our hero sees himself on an electronics store camera and remarks "I really am ruggedly handsome.' Of course, he is played by [[Nathan Fillion]]. This actually an aversion... he had actually gone over there to see if any footage of the killer might be available.

* [[Distressed Damsel]] / [[Distressed Dude]]: Both Beckett and Castle seem to have a knack of getting into distressing situations requiring the other to rescue them. In "Cops and Robbers" we learn that Castle has apparently been keeping score and that by his count he's saved Beckett's life nine times while she's only saved his eight in return. Beckett is less-than-impressed by either revelation.

** Would be a [[Stock Visual Metaphors|Stock Visual Metaphor]] but for the "Stock" bit. In the opening scene of "Wrapped Up in Death," we see a gargoyle plummet towards the soon-to-be-[[Body of the Week]], and just before [[Your Head Asplode|his head ends up being splatted much like a tomato by a hammer]], we cut to a scene of a tomato getting splatted by a hammer (as wielded by Alexis).

** In "Heroes And Villains", Castle and Beckett watch another writer and his muse (an attractive female cop driven by the death of her parent) leave the office. Castle invokes this trope...only to watch the other two kiss (as they are a couple). Cue an awkward exit, stage left by Castle.

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