Tropescilloscope: Almost Kiss

Two characters are about to kiss before suddenly being interrupted by something. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Politically Incorrect Villain Cat Scare From Nobody to Nightmare The Hero Random Events Plot Nothing Is Scarier Truth in Television Public Domain Feature Films Kubrick Stare Put on a Bus A Father to His Men Bavarian Fire Drill Brother–Sister Incest Contrived Coincidence Ambiguously Gay May–December Romance Meaningful Background Event Idiot Ball Adult Fear Thriller Chase Scene Honor Before Reason Artistic License – Gun Safety Daddy's Girl This Is Gonna Suck Almost Kiss Zombie Stories Adorkable The Chick Aside Glance Dutch Angle Casting Gag Red Herring Villain Ball Enemy Mine Loophole Abuse Kick the Dog Determinator The Cavalry Knight Templar Dies Wide Open Not So Above It All Serial Killer Dark Is Not Evil Really Gets Around Insistent Terminology Call-Back Crazy-Prepared Henpecked Husband Smoking Is Cool The Un-Reveal Every Car Is a Pinto Ambiguous Ending Four-Temperament Ensemble A Date with Rosie Palms The Casanova Vomit Discretion Shot Broken Bird Conspicuous CG Agony of the Feet Never Trust a Trailer Country Matters Line-of-Sight Name Award-Bait Song Composite Character Anachronic Order Took a Level in Jerkass Cool Guns Animated Credits Opening Earn Your Happy Ending Determinator aka: The Determinator Chewing the Scenery Humans Are Bastards Token Minority Big Brother Instinct Central Theme Bottomless Magazines Reality Has No Subtitles Red Oni, Blue Oni Playing Gertrude And Starring Get Out! 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The Faceless Chekhov's Gun The Power of Love Trailers Always Spoil Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Apocalypse How The '50s Abhorrent Admirer Fan Disservice Developing Doomed Characters Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Dragon The Brute Parental Abandonment Didn't Think This Through Made of Iron He Knows Too Much Spell My Name with an "S" Disney Villain Death Roaring Rampage of Revenge Eldritch Abomination It's All About Me The Film of the Book Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Neck Snap Friend to All Children Lighter and Softer Overprotective Dad Arch-Enemy The Sociopath Authority Equals Asskicking Bait-and-Switch Visual Pun Ambiguous Disorder Call-Forward The Reveal Early-Bird Cameo Gratuitous English A Minor Kidroduction Dressing as the Enemy One Steve Limit Wretched Hive Gender Flip No-Holds-Barred Beatdown After the End Kill It with Fire Small Name, Big Ego You Have Failed Me Hate Sink Book-Ends Black and Gray Morality Neck Lift And I Must Scream Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass Grandpa Ripped from the Headlines Bi the Way I Have Your Wife Serious Business Eureka Moment Death by Irony Novelization In the Back Heroic Sacrifice Dark Action Girl Becoming the Mask Intergenerational Friendship Kill 'em All Stuff Blowing Up Dropped a Bridge on Him Frame-Up Maybe Ever After The Dreaded Naked People Are Funny The Cameo Too Dumb to Live Historical Villain Upgrade Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Chessmaster Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Alleged Car Obstructive Bureaucrat Costume Porn Oh, Crap! 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Hoist by His Own Petard Moment Killer La Résistance Driven to Suicide Bald of Evil Redemption Equals Death Based on a True Story Lampshade Hanging Military and Warfare Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Works Set in World War II Non-Indicative Name You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Made of Explodium Bury Your Gays Canadian Movies Man on Fire Sacrificial Lion Mercy Kill Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Properly Paranoid Deadpan Snarker Only One Name Fat Bastard Intrepid Reporter From Bad to Worse In Medias Res Very Loosely Based on a True Story Foregone Conclusion The Vamp Christmas Movies Index Sir Swears-a-Lot Evil-Detecting Dog Establishing Character Moment Horror Comedy Romantic False Lead Creative Closing Credits Monumental Damage Meaningful Name Curse Cut Short Totally Radical Badass Boast Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Super Strength Parental Incest Dual Wielding Heel–Face Turn Bolivian Army Ending Rule of Symbolism Let's Get Dangerous! Scenery Porn Shout-Out Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Say My Name Only Known by Their Nickname Unwitting Instigator of Doom Not What It Looks Like Beta Couple Heroes Want Redheads Missing Mom Affectionate Parody Badass Bookworm Suspiciously Similar Substitute Death of a Child Femme Fatale Rasputinian Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Did Not Get the Girl Black Dude Dies First Batman Gambit The Mafia More Dakka Credits Gag Meaningful Echo Danny Peary Cult Movies List Superhero Drill Sergeant Nasty It Will Never Catch On Curb-Stomp Battle Alliterative Name Never My Fault Bad Boss Diabolus ex Machina Breaking the Fourth Wall Freudian Excuse Villain Protagonist No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Instant Death Bullet Naïve Newcomer Faux Affably Evil Villain Song Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Malevolent Masked Men Betty and Veronica Flashback Face–Heel Turn Suddenly SHOUTING! Boom, Headshot! 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Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Mighty Whitey Vomit Indiscretion Shot One-Word Title Older Than They Look Worthy Opponent Double Entendre Mr. Exposition Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other For Want of a Nail Fantasy Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Knife Nut Room Full of Crazy Happily Married Nice Guy I Need a Freaking Drink Dogged Nice Guy Brick Joke Television Movie Index Author Appeal Drowning My Sorrows Artistic License – Biology Throwing Your Sword Always Works Product Placement Dying Moment of Awesome Demonic Possession Adaptational Villainy Facial Horror Gorn Plucky Comic Relief All Girls Want Bad Boys "The Reason You Suck" Speech Ship Tease Film Noir Index Defiant to the End Grey and Gray Morality Cowboy Cop Famous Last Words Bar Brawl Depraved Bisexual Daylight Horror Closed Circle Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Does Not Like Shoes Self-Deprecation Cat Fight Scare Chord Jerkass Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Evil Sounds Deep Shut Up, Hannibal! Retired Badass Obviously Evil The Stoner Redshirt Army Evil Laugh Evil Brit Slap-Slap-Kiss Love at First Sight Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Spared by the Adaptation Would Hurt a Child Cruel and Unusual Death Loads and Loads of Characters Obfuscating Stupidity Karmic Death Our Vampires Are Different Laughing Mad Interrupted Suicide Break the Cutie Anyone Can Die Antagonist Title Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Continuity Nod Stepford Smiler Action Prologue Sports Stories Dramatic Gun Cock Villain Opening Scene Shoot the Shaggy Dog There Is No Kill Like Overkill Deus ex Machina Deal with the Devil Grievous Bottley Harm The Mole Storming the Castle Captain Ersatz Pimped-Out Dress The Atoner Hero Antagonist Cloudcuckoolander Fourth Date Marriage Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Dark and Troubled Past The Lost Lenore Accidental Murder Stock Footage Good Is Not Nice Ominous Latin Chanting The Voiceless Covers Always Lie Would Hit a Girl Car Fu Never Found the Body Captain Obvious Crucified Hero Shot Not So Stoic Rule of Funny Have a Gay Old Time Domestic Abuse The Lancer Heterosexual Life-Partners Back from the Dead Beard of Evil Card-Carrying Villain No Antagonist Only Sane Man Creator Cameo Unusually Uninteresting Sight Big Fancy House Poor Communication Kills Pet the Dog I'm a Humanitarian Crapsack World Sadistic Choice Jitter Cam Historical-Domain Character Funny Foreigner Faking the Dead Rated M for Manly He Who Fights Monsters Fish out of Water Damsel in Distress Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Air-Vent Passageway Running Gag Asshole Victim Disappeared Dad For the Evulz Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Awesome, but Impractical Not Quite Dead Genre Throwback Amusing Injuries Translation Convention Ghost Fiction Abusive Parents Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Is Serious Business Expy Corpsing Amoral Attorney Ax-Crazy Cold-Blooded Torture Cool Old Lady Offscreen Moment of Awesome Break the Haughty Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Scenery Gorn Mood Whiplash Camp Gay Fun with Acronyms Unusual Euphemism Punch-Clock Villain Take That! Big Eater All for Nothing Mooks Taking the Bullet The '60s Word of God Humiliation Conga No Celebrities Were Harmed The Stoic Pragmatic Villainy Precision F-Strike Off with His Head! Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Body Horror Bare Your Midriff Deliberate Values Dissonance Shipper on Deck She's Got Legs Informed Ability Sole Survivor Shown Their Work Disguised in Drag A God Am I Blatant Lies Hidden Depths Deliberately Monochrome Annoying Younger Sibling Slasher Smile Combat Pragmatist Unreliable Narrator Drives Like Crazy Eiffel Tower Effect Death Seeker Eye Scream Make It Look Like an Accident Sassy Black Woman She Cleans Up Nicely Hair-Trigger Temper Bland-Name Product The Starscream Age Lift Morality Pet Hypocritical Humor Gilligan Cut The '90s folderlabel Fire-Forged Friends Unresolved Sexual Tension A.I. Is a Crapshoot Rewatch Bonus Setting Update Reality Ensues All There in the Manual I Did What I Had to Do Hollywood Law You Killed My Father Half the Man He Used to Be Match Cut Exact Words Large Ham Author Avatar Genre Shift Fiery Redhead Cool Old Guy Plot Hole Handicapped Badass Silence Is Golden Your Head A-Splode Fingore Alpha Bitch Easily Forgiven Despair Event Horizon World of Ham Arranged Marriage Beauty Is Never Tarnished "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Oner My Beloved Smother Left the Background Music On Wicked Cultured Evil Is Petty Death by Adaptation Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Wham Line Pretty Little Headshots Pretty in Mink Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Implacable Man Bloody Hilarious Punny Name Corrupt Corporate Executive Face Death with Dignity Bilingual Bonus Spiteful Spit Green-Eyed Monster Ungrateful Bastard No Ending Gone Horribly Right Auto Erotica "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mind Screw Getting Crap Past the Radar Cain and Abel Madness Mantra Red Right Hand Video Credits Vampire Fiction Dramedy Reasonable Authority Figure Fanservice Extra Fake Shemp Even Evil Has Standards No Name Given Index of Film Westerns Woman Scorned Broken Aesop Accidental Misnaming As You Know Attempted Rape Police Brutality Chekhov's Skill Mexican Standoff The Smurfette Principle Chiaroscuro Decoy Protagonist French Films Gory Discretion Shot Disney Death The Bad Guy Wins Villain with Good Publicity Science Fiction Films Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Arc Words The '70s Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Chekhov's Gunman BFG Rape as Drama Pyrrhic Victory The Hero Dies Fanservice Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Black Best Friend Irony Slashed Throat Tap on the Head The Dog Bites Back The Place Alas, Poor Villain Demoted to Extra Adaptation Distillation Big Bad Duumvirate An Aesop Meet Cute Aluminum Christmas Trees Retirony Homage It Can Think Coming-of-Age Story Genre Savvy Sanity Slippage Together in Death Red Eyes, Take Warning Stylistic Suck Title Drop Evil vs. Evil My God, What Have I Done?