Castle (TV series)/Tropes M to P: Difference between revisions

* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: "Kill the Messenger", "Murder Most Fowl", "Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind", "Set Up"/"Countdown", "Pandora"/"Linchpin".

* [[Minored in Asskicking]]: Castle, being a civilian, usually leaves the dirty work to his detective friends. But we are occasionally reminded that he is, in fact, a better shot than Beckett.

* [[Missing Mom]]: Only in this case, as much as they care about her Castle and Alexis are kind of glad that Meredith isn't permanently around.

* [[Mistaken for Cheating]]: The victim in "Suicide Squeeze". His wife eventually learns it's not a girlfriend in Cuba he got killed over...it's ''his daughter''. It's also established that the victim's wife was at one point [[Mistaken for Cheating]] by the victim, when in fact she was upset over his 'cheating'.

* [[Moment Killer]]:

** In "Poof, You're Dead", it turns out that everyone already knows about the big secret -- {{spoiler|that Esposito and Lanie are in a relationship}} -- but have just decided to play along to give the secret holders some privacy (and no doubt enjoy watching them squirm [[Pull the Thread|whenever it's brought up]]).

** In "'Til Death Do Us Part", when Castle, Beckett and Esposito are trying to tell Ryan that Jenny had slept with a pick-up artist a month after they started dating, he nonchalantly reveals that he knew all along and wasn't bothered because they hadn't been exclusive at the time.

* [[Not So Different]]:

** "There are two kinds of folk who sit around and think of ways to kill people -- psychopaths and mystery writers..." In "Boom!" it's explicitly noted that both Castle and the killer 'kill people for a living' and share certain similarities -- except Castle only does it in his books. {{spoiler|Then it's revealed that the killer is an amateur writer who distances himself from his crimes by writing them up as fictionalized manuscripts.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Beckett'''}}: If you're gonna shoot me, you look at me in the eyes. Okay? And you look hard. Because I am not your enemy, I can't be. ''You and I have too much in common.''}}

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Okay, it's exactly what it looks like. But [[I Can Explain|he can explain]]...

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: In "Under the Gun", one of their suspects is an aging ex-con who needs a walker to get around... until he has to get away, at which point he ditches the walker and makes a run for it.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: In "Home is Where the Heart Stops," Beckett offers Castle access to some evidence, but only if he can get a bulls-eye at the shooting range after already having seen him miss badly three times. Castle plugs all three of his next shots through the 10-ring. Also: [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

* [[Old Shame]]: In the pilot, one of the first things that clues Castle into the fact that things aren't what they seem with the copycat killings and gets him interested in solving the mystery is that the killer is staging them based off his self-described 'lesser works'. In a later episode, it comes out that Beckett was a teen model. She is not happy to see a picture of her from then floating around the precinct.

* [[Omniglot]]: When the cast was running after a couple of suspects in Chinatown, Castle revealed that he could speak Chinese, apparently fluidly, as he talks to a pair of terrified bystanders. When asked, [[Firefly|he claims to have learned it]] [[Shout-Out|from a TV show]]. Most examples of the trope know more than one other language, but under the circumstances...

** Done in the season three premiere.

** Also in "Setup"

** Ashley, Alexis' boyfriend, is accidentally [[Twerp Sweating|Twerp Sweated]] by Castle in what was, for a while, his only on-screen appearance.

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Between Castle, Esposito and Ryan, Beckett looks like the most serious person on the series. Alternatively, Alexis Castle. Despite being around 15 at the start of the series.

** Both lead actors have occasional moments of Canadianness

** Hans von Manschaft, a stripper,in "Almost Famous". He immediately drops the accent when he hears his rival has been murdered

* [[Open-Minded Parent]]: Of the three generations in the Castle household, the fifteen-year old Alexis is far and away the most responsible. (In fairness, Castle ''is'' a responsible parent; it's just that he's completely irresponsible about everything ''else''.) And in "Home is Where the Heart Stops," Castle explains that his ex, Alexis's mother, is ''even worse''.