Tropescilloscope: Informed Ability

A character reputedly has a certain ability or attribute, but the audience never sees it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Guy Reality Has No Subtitles Setting Update Diabolus ex Machina Eiffel Tower Effect Implacable Man Affectionate Parody Dramatic Irony Betty and Veronica Morality Pet No Antagonist Parental Substitute The X of Y Silent Movie Adaptational Attractiveness Insult Backfire Blood Knight Funny Foreigner Card-Carrying Villain In Name Only timeperiod Your Cheating Heart Artistic License – Geography Names to Run Away from Really Fast Police Brutality Historical In-Joke Married to the Job I Did What I Had to Do Bottomless Magazines After the End Eagleland The Big Guy The Oner Worthy Opponent Domestic Abuse Hidden Depths Downer Ending Awesome, but Impractical Mr. Fanservice Music Stories Extreme Doormat Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bilingual Bonus No Ending Mexican Standoff Kick the Dog Mugging the Monster Humiliation Conga Storming the Castle Big "NO!" Shoot the Shaggy Dog Shirtless Scene Horror Comedy Never Trust a Trailer Artistic License – Military Handicapped Badass Fun with Acronyms Fanservice Extra Recycled IN SPACE! The Atoner Captain Ersatz folderlabel Index of Film Westerns Retirony Toplessness from the Back Token Minority Author Appeal Needs Wiki Magic Love Crapsack World Asshole Victim Bound and Gagged Hooker with a Heart of Gold Thriller Papa Wolf Take That! Totally Radical Alpha Bitch Failed a Spot Check Half the Man He Used to Be The Power of Love Death Seeker Big Applesauce Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Deadpan Snarker Deliberately Monochrome You Killed My Father Scary Black Man Hypocrite Dressing as the Enemy And Starring I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Evil Sounds Deep Suspiciously Specific Denial Overly Long Gag Stalker with a Crush Tempting Fate Darkest Hour '80s Hair Meaningful Name Cain and Abel Well-Intentioned Extremist Nothing Is Scarier No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Children Are Innocent Oh, Crap! It Can Think Together in Death Antagonist Title Department of Redundancy Department Those Two Bad Guys Badass Bookworm Retired Badass The '50s The '60s The Film of the Book Spared by the Adaptation Stock Footage Exact Words Big-Bad Ensemble Brainless Beauty Bittersweet Ending Greater-Scope Villain Interrupted Suicide Fire-Forged Friends Adaptation Distillation Ass Shove Bond One-Liner One-Man Army Double Entendre Hypocritical Humor Motor Mouth Cool Old Guy Stepford Smiler And I Must Scream Fatal Flaw La Résistance Award-Bait Song Leave the Camera Running Mr. Exposition Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Shut Up, Hannibal! Credits Gag Stylistic Suck Male Gaze Berserk Button Bare Your Midriff Fat Bastard Spiteful Spit Final Girl Alas, Poor Villain Drives Like Crazy Those Two Guys I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dissonant Serenity My God, What Have I Done? Parental Abandonment Japanese Films Wham Line Red Right Hand Hollywood Law Silence Is Golden He Knows Too Much Author Avatar Guile Hero Canon Foreigner Good Is Not Nice Grey and Gray Morality Improvised Weapon Sadistic Choice Badass in a Nice Suit Our Zombies Are Different Superhero Playing Gertrude Only Known by Their Nickname In the Back Combat Pragmatist Too Dumb to Live A Minor Kidroduction Zombie Stories Authority Equals Asskicking Dark Action Girl Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Broken Pedestal Only in It for the Money Would Hit a Girl Pyrrhic Victory Historical Villain Upgrade Neck Snap Smoking Is Cool Time Skip Costume Porn Big Eater Artistic License – History Fate Worse than Death All Girls Want Bad Boys The Casanova Title Drop Loads and Loads of Characters Rule of Funny Wicked Cultured The Chessmaster What the Hell, Hero? Rated M for Manly He Who Fights Monsters Crazy Jealous Guy What You Are in the Dark Anachronic Order Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Slasher Smile Bloody Hilarious Translation Convention Dramatic Gun Cock The Lost Lenore Scare Chord Everyone Has Standards Killed Mid-Sentence Due to the Dead Only Sane Man Punch-Clock Villain Rape as Drama Kubrick Stare Never My Fault The Ace 20 Minutes into the Future Mighty Whitey Unwitting Instigator of Doom Neck Lift Lighter and Softer Bond Villain Stupidity Based on a True Story Bavarian Fire Drill Creepy Child Advertised Extra Ship Tease Took a Level in Jerkass Serial Killer Homage Deal with the Devil Your Head A-Splode Kick the Son of a Bitch Depraved Bisexual Bowdlerise Monumental Damage Real Life Friend to All Children More Dakka Book-Ends Disney Villain Death Butt-Monkey Meaningful Background Event Not What It Looks Like Decoy Protagonist Hell Is That Noise Insane Troll Logic Vitriolic Best Buds Foil Knight Templar From Nobody to Nightmare The Cameo Blackmail Chekhov's Skill You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Stealth Hi/Bye Crazy-Prepared Made of Explodium All Just a Dream Ambiguously Gay Calling the Old Man Out Reckless Gun Usage The Hero Dies The Sociopath Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Cloudcuckoolander Canadian Movies Epic Movie Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Cowboy Cop Artistic License – Gun Safety Woman in White Show Within a Show Mystery and Detective Films Does Not Like Shoes Gorn Christmas Movies Index Roaring Rampage of Revenge Defiant to the End Bolivian Army Ending Shipper on Deck Heroes Want Redheads Evil-Detecting Dog Anti-Hero Tranquil Fury Eldritch Abomination Ambiguous Ending Badass Grandpa Arranged Marriage Death by Adaptation Pay Evil unto Evil Fan Disservice Ghost Fiction The Mafia Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Back from the Dead Creator Cameo Action Girl Knife Nut Rousing Speech Lock and Load Montage Guns Akimbo Body Horror Amusing Injuries Ripped from the Headlines Genre Shift Amoral Attorney Femme Fatale Fiery Redhead Spanner in the Works Visual Pun Room Full of Crazy Mad Scientist Get Out! Malevolent Masked Men Suspiciously Similar Substitute Four-Temperament Ensemble Age Lift The Quiet One Fish out of Water Freudian Excuse Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Faking the Dead Running Gag Blatant Lies Celebrity Paradox Brick Joke Unspoken Plan Guarantee Disney Death Genre Throwback Establishing Character Moment Defrosting Ice Queen Men Are the Expendable Gender Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fantasy Films Television Movie Index Dark Is Not Evil Dies Wide Open Science Fiction Films How We Got Here Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Intrepid Reporter Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Suddenly SHOUTING! Car Fu Evil Counterpart Dying Moment of Awesome Developing Doomed Characters From Bad to Worse The Smurfette Principle Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Evil vs. Evil Really Gets Around Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Agony of the Feet Naked People Are Funny Not So Different Anyone Can Die Race Against the Clock Flipping the Bird Freeze-Frame Bonus The Un-Reveal The Place Self-Deprecation Action Genre Off with His Head! Ms. Fanservice French Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Great Depression Once More, with Clarity! MacGuffin Be Careful What You Wish For Drill Sergeant Nasty Italian Films Eye Scream As the Good Book Says... Obstructive Bureaucrat Unusual Euphemism The Dragon Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Enemy Mine Police are Useless Parental Neglect I'm a Humanitarian Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Every Car Is a Pinto Villain Opening Scene Hate Sink Cold-Blooded Torture Death by Irony Chekhov's Gun Anti-Villain Mood Whiplash Martial Arts Movie Revenge Heterosexual Life-Partners Those Wacky Nazis Disproportionate Retribution Slasher Movie The Voiceless Male Frontal Nudity Curb-Stomp Battle Early Installment Weirdness Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Undying Loyalty Demoted to Extra Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Happily Married Cassandra Truth Imagine Spot Big Fancy House Race Lift An Aesop The End... Or Is It? Composite Character Sealed Evil in a Can Mythology Gag Genre Savvy Adaptation Expansion Dirty Coward Arch-Enemy N-Word Privileges Ascended Extra Evil Is Hammy Last-Name Basis Psychopathic Manchild My Greatest Failure Missing Mom Public Domain Feature Films Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Stoic Camera Abuse Red Eyes, Take Warning Noodle Incident Wrong Genre Savvy Refuge in Audacity Evil Is Petty Rasputinian Death Arc Words Rule of Cool As You Know Jump Scare Conspicuous CG Getting Crap Past the Radar Woman Scorned Sci-Fi Horror Meet Cute Logo Joke Insistent Terminology Smug Snake Villain with Good Publicity The '90s Take a Third Option Mistaken for Gay Eyepatch of Power Heroic BSoD Bar Brawl Dark Reprise Black and Gray Morality British Films The Musical The Reveal Black Comedy Rape Throwing Your Sword Always Works Politically Incorrect Villain Contrived Coincidence Important Haircut Very Loosely Based on a True Story Film Noir Daylight Horror Evil Laugh Beware the Nice Ones Annoying Younger Sibling Sole Survivor Reasonable Authority Figure Random Events Plot Disguised in Drag Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Driven to Suicide Fatal Family Photo Australian Movies Adaptational Heroism Jerk Jock Did Not Get the Girl And the Adventure Continues Flashback Does This Remind You of Anything? Cruel and Unusual Death Evil Plan Gainax Ending Jerkass Deliberate Values Dissonance Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Film Noir Index Drowning My Sorrows Action Prologue Twist Ending Victoria's Secret Compartment Expy The Lancer You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Karmic Death Even Evil Has Standards Sexy Discretion Shot Cool Guns Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Spiritual Successor Let's Get Dangerous! Rule of Three I Have Your Wife Mundane Made Awesome Crucified Hero Shot Chase Scene The Alleged Car Corpsing Shout-Out Not So Stoic Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Red Herring Adults Are Useless Faux Affably Evil Honor Before Reason Pragmatic Villainy Accidental Misnaming Cool Car Historical-Domain Character What Happened to the Mouse? Up to Eleven My Beloved Smother Hero Antagonist Gold Digger Hair-Trigger Temper Death Glare Sinister Minister Major Injury Underreaction Corrupt Corporate Executive Double-Meaning Title Cat Scare Country Matters Retcon Heroic Sacrifice True Companions Camp Gay Unreliable Narrator Henpecked Husband Red Shirt Love at First Sight Big Brother Instinct Make It Look Like an Accident Break the Cutie Chiaroscuro Catapult Nightmare Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Beauty Is Never Tarnished Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sassy Black Woman Psychological Thriller Left the Background Music On O.O.C. Is Serious Business Taking the Bullet Super Strength Horror Films The Brute It's All About Me Shown Their Work Accidental Murder Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer It Will Never Catch On Moment Killer Took a Level in Badass No Celebrities Were Harmed Despair Event Horizon Dirty Cop Aside Glance Would Hurt a Child Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dumb Blonde Adaptation Name Change She Cleans Up Nicely Creative Closing Credits Biopic Instant Death Bullet Naïve Newcomer Bland-Name Product Nice Guy Animal Motifs Beta Couple Mind Screw Actually Pretty Funny Evil Brit Yandere Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Load It's Personal Leaning on the Fourth Wall Almost Kiss Babies Ever After Soft Glass One Steve Limit Bunny-Ears Lawyer Foreshadowing Offscreen Moment of Awesome Unresolved Sexual Tension Comically Missing the Point Stuff Blowing Up Bait-and-Switch Kids Are Cruel Deus ex Machina "Awesome McCool" Name Skewed Priorities Big Bad Fanservice Big Damn Heroes Abhorrent Admirer A Date with Rosie Palms Broken Aesop Gone Horribly Right Truth in Television Groin Attack Frame-Up Made of Iron BFG Match Cut Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Redemption Equals Death Laser-Guided Karma Man on Fire The Remake Russian Films Dull Surprise Soundtrack Dissonance Call-Forward Epic Fail Mercy Kill Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Adult Fear Expository Hairstyle Change Pragmatic Adaptation Apocalypse How Curse Cut Short Black Best Friend Dark and Troubled Past Peek-a-Boo Corpse Alliterative Name Broken Bird Taking You with Me Not Quite Dead An Arm and a Leg Maybe Ever After Drugs Are Bad Air-Vent Passageway Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Vampire Fiction Red Oni, Blue Oni Punny Name Casting Gag Obviously Evil Fainting Cool Shades Adaptation Dye-Job Novelization Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Unusually Uninteresting Sight Bi the Way Sports Stories Karma Houdini Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Ax-Crazy Put on a Bus In Medias Res The Bully Bring My Brown Pants World of Ham Plucky Comic Relief Badass Longcoat Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Death of a Child Hope Spot Star-Crossed Lovers Hollywood Darkness Foregone Conclusion "Shaggy Dog" Story Not Even Bothering with the Accent Line-of-Sight Name Artistic License – Biology Spell My Name with an "S" She's Got Legs Dirty Old Man Death by Sex Not So Above It All Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Destination Defenestration Gender Flip Psycho for Hire Actor Allusion Anguished Declaration of Love German Films Whole Plot Reference Bury Your Gays All for Nothing Not Using the "Z" Word B-Movie Fake Shemp Mooks Video Credits Cluster F-Bomb Training Montage Trailers Always Spoil The Stinger Serious Business Romantic Comedy Villain Protagonist The Cavalry Villainous Breakdown Product Placement Call-Back Only One Name Five-Man Band Romantic False Lead Black Comedy The Smart Guy Darker and Edgier The Dog Bites Back The Chick Heel–Face Turn Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Precision F-Strike Animal Title Index Gratuitous English Laughing Mad Abusive Parents Manic Pixie Dream Girl Riddle for the Ages Blood from the Mouth Adaptational Badass The Starscream Heel Realization Jitter Cam Leitmotif Mama Bear Small Name, Big Ego The Dreaded You Have Failed Me Sequel Hook Bloodless Carnage Distracted by the Sexy Wham Shot Coming-of-Age Story Light Is Not Good NO INDOOR VOICE Captain Obvious Breaking the Fourth Wall Reality Ensues Deconstruction Historical Hero Upgrade Works Set in World War II Central Theme Animated Credits Opening Redshirt Army Determinator All There in the Script Villain Song Eureka Moment Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Famous Last Words No-Sell Boom, Headshot! Batman Gambit The Bad Guy Wins Lampshade Hanging Villain Ball Face Death with Dignity Aluminum Christmas Trees Sanity Slippage Humans Are Bastards Meaningful Echo Real Life Writes the Plot Ungrateful Bastard All Men Are Perverts Pimped-Out Dress Manipulative Bastard "The Reason You Suck" Speech Here We Go Again! Fingore Manly Tears Artistic License – Law Gilligan Cut May–December Romance Jerkass Has a Point Our Vampires Are Different Documentary I Need a Freaking Drink Beard of Evil Bloodier and Gorier Badass Normal Daddy's Girl Hong Kong Films The Ditz Green-Eyed Monster Damsel in Distress Scenery Porn Large Ham Rewatch Bonus Sequel Escalation Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Framing Device Poor Communication Kills Older Than They Look The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Kill 'em All Posthumous Character Disappeared Dad Extremely Short Timespan All There in the Manual Fantastic Racism Informed Ability Non-Indicative Name Shower Scene Offscreen Teleportation The Mole Tap on the Head Word of God Easily Forgiven Only a Flesh Wound Loophole Abuse Irony Off-into-the-Distance Ending Re-Cut Wounded Gazelle Gambit Never Found the Body Grievous Bottley Harm Hoist by His Own Petard Bullying a Dragon Dwindling Party Cool Old Lady The Hero Immune to Bullets Better to Die than Be Killed Rule of Symbolism The Stoner Becoming the Mask A.I. Is a Crapshoot Film Series Adapted Out Determinator aka: The Determinator Dual Wielding Love Triangle Face–Heel Turn Madness Mantra Pet the Dog Chewing the Scenery There Is No Kill Like Overkill For the Evulz An Axe to Grind Improbable Weapon User Properly Paranoid "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sacrificial Lion Military and Warfare Films Paper-Thin Disguise Ironic Echo Didn't Think This Through Action Survivor Same Language Dub Obfuscating Stupidity Dogged Nice Guy Adaptational Villainy Kill It with Fire Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome No OSHA Compliance Adorkable Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Market-Based Title Badass Boast Cat Fight War Is Hell Parental Incest Catch-Phrase Brutal Honesty Empathic Environment As Himself Anachronism Stew Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene A God Am I Demonic Possession The Alcoholic Vomit Discretion Shot Facial Horror Armor-Piercing Question Narrator Manchild The '70s A Father to His Men Bad Boss Scenery Gorn Black Dude Dies First Artistic License – Physics Improbable Aiming Skills Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dutch Angle Character Development Fourth Date Marriage Slap-Slap-Kiss Shell-Shocked Veteran Covers Always Lie Big Bad Duumvirate Gory Discretion Shot Have a Gay Old Time Bad "Bad Acting" Tagline Brother–Sister Incest Wretched Hive Slashed Throat This Is Gonna Suck No Name Given Chekhov's Gunman