If TV writers need cheap exposition, the easiest way is to have a news Show Within a Show do it. Usually, the news anchors provide a Practical Voice-Over. Sometimes, they do more than that (see Coincidental Broadcast and News Monopoly).
Tropes for Keaton Carpenter's Thomas Carpenter: Teenage Superhuman
Sort the story, characters, etc. by tropes. Like connieblackwood said there are roughly one billion tropes so PLEASE look through them before adding one.
