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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Is Serious Business Blood from the Mouth Small Name, Big Ego The Mafia Vitriolic Best Buds More Dakka Neck Lift Rasputinian Death Action Prologue Mexican Standoff The '70s Ass Shove Fingore Face–Heel Turn Berserk Button Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Crapsack World Dogged Nice Guy Smug Snake How We Got Here Martial Arts Movie Artistic License – Gun Safety Dies Wide Open timeperiod Tagline Psycho for Hire Rule of Funny Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Heroic Sacrifice Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Film Noir Offscreen Teleportation Poor Communication Kills Cowboy Cop Monumental Damage The Quiet One Pimped-Out Dress Ghost Fiction Deliberately Monochrome Karma Houdini Children Are Innocent Badass Bookworm Nothing Is Scarier Reality Is Unrealistic Rated M for Manly Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Bring My Brown Pants Make It Look Like an Accident Cool Old Lady Belligerent Sexual Tension Driven to Suicide All Men Are Perverts Hidden Depths Get Out! The Cavalry Stepford Smiler Put on a Bus Crazy-Prepared Captain Ersatz Improbable Weapon User There Is No Kill Like Overkill Defiant to the End The Smart Guy Conspicuous CG Christmas Movies Index Knight Templar From Bad to Worse Music Stories Continuity Nod Cool Old Guy 20 Minutes into the Future Rich Bitch Affably Evil Man on Fire Evil Plan Police Brutality Friend to All Children Obfuscating Stupidity Those Wacky Nazis Depraved Bisexual And I Must Scream Ms. Fanservice Rule of Symbolism Scenery Porn Country Matters I Did What I Had to Do The Alleged Car Award-Bait Song Well-Intentioned Extremist Wounded Gazelle Gambit In the Back Blackmail Male Gaze Deliberate Values Dissonance Red Oni, Blue Oni Ironic Echo Dramedy Faux Affably Evil The Starscream Pragmatic Villainy All There in the Script The Ditz Bald of Evil Cool Shades Kubrick Stare Gratuitous English Broken Bird Romantic False Lead Shell-Shocked Veteran She Cleans Up Nicely Anti-Villain Took a Level in Jerkass Shoot the Shaggy Dog Black and Gray Morality Suspiciously Specific Denial The Hero Dies Tranquil Fury Not Quite Dead Disney Death Evil vs. Evil I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Affectionate Parody Interrupted Suicide Crucified Hero Shot All Just a Dream Fish out of Water Eiffel Tower Effect Creative Closing Credits Sole Survivor Asshole Victim Imagine Spot The '50s The End... Or Is It? Fantastic Racism Last-Name Basis Chekhov's Gunman No Celebrities Were Harmed Bloodier and Gorier NO INDOOR VOICE Camp Gay Stylistic Suck Manly Tears Lighter and Softer Documentary Hollywood Darkness Token Minority Word of God Gender Flip Mooks No-Sell Faking the Dead Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Beauty Is Never Tarnished Deus ex Machina Fourth Date Marriage Artistic License – Physics Novelization The Bad Guy Wins Cloudcuckoolander The Hero Stuff Blowing Up Mad Scientist Big Eater Department of Redundancy Department Totally Radical Red Shirt For Want of a Nail Police are Useless Zombie Stories Politically Incorrect Villain Bad "Bad Acting" Insistent Terminology Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Woman Scorned Bottomless Magazines Beard of Evil Ambiguous Disorder Precision F-Strike Serial Killer No OSHA Compliance The Stinger Wretched Hive Sadistic Choice Lock and Load Montage Product Placement Meaningful Name Take That! Random Events Plot Hero Antagonist Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene It's All About Me Logo Joke Dying Moment of Awesome Posthumous Character Obviously Evil Wham Shot Fainting Fun with Acronyms Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bi the Way As Long as It Sounds Foreign Horror Films Celebrity Paradox Mundane Made Awesome Destination Defenestration Bury Your Gays Bloody Hilarious Funny Background Event Diabolus ex Machina Fantasy Films An Arm and a Leg Fat Bastard Slashed Throat Love at First Sight Brainless Beauty Hair-Trigger Temper Early Installment Weirdness Leitmotif Red Right Hand Thriller Parental Substitute Only a Flesh Wound Stock Footage Off with His Head! 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Soundtrack Dissonance The Load Fate Worse than Death Gorn Stalker with a Crush Protagonist Title Eureka Moment Black Best Friend '80s Hair Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Leave the Camera Running Bolivian Army Ending True Companions Shirtless Scene Groin Attack Comically Missing the Point Break the Cutie Only in It for the Money Mistaken for Gay Not So Stoic Suddenly SHOUTING! Easily Forgiven Translation Convention Badass in a Nice Suit Villain Song Honor Before Reason Spell My Name with an "S" Shipper on Deck The Place Public Domain Feature Films The Un-Reveal Book-Ends Non-Indicative Name Historical In-Joke Dutch Angle Pre-Mortem One-Liner Our Vampires Are Different No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Line-of-Sight Name Military and Warfare Films Facial Horror Wrong Genre Savvy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Cold-Blooded Torture What the Hell, Hero? 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Is a Crapshoot Babies Ever After Soft Glass Sealed Evil in a Can Be Careful What You Wish For Mind Screw Dwindling Party He Knows Too Much Foreshadowing Red Herring Bare Your Midriff Foil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Bavarian Fire Drill Vampire Fiction Madness Mantra Jerk Jock Pragmatic Adaptation Scenery Gorn Action Genre Pet the Dog Jitter Cam Laser-Guided Karma Peek-a-Boo Corpse My God, What Have I Done? Older Than They Look Breaking the Fourth Wall Adapted Out Fanservice Extra Our Zombies Are Different The Ace Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold One-Word Title Setting Update Epic Fail Credits Gag Everyone Has Standards Anyone Can Die Homage Brother–Sister Incest Oh, Crap! 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Epilogue Gold Digger Artistic License – Biology Death of a Child As the Good Book Says... Does Not Like Shoes Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Punny Name Evil Is Hammy Extremely Short Timespan Bait-and-Switch Big Fancy House An Axe to Grind Large Ham Animal Motifs Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Shown Their Work Handicapped Badass Final Girl Adaptation Expansion Very Loosely Based on a True Story Moment Killer Japanese Films Evil-Detecting Dog Extreme Doormat Parental Neglect I Need a Freaking Drink Manchild A Date with Rosie Palms Anachronic Order It Can Think Cat Fight Badass Boast Have a Gay Old Time Bound and Gagged Fatal Flaw Sir Swears-a-Lot Calling the Old Man Out Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Recycled IN SPACE! Fake Shemp The '60s Hooker with a Heart of Gold Real Life Unspoken Plan Guarantee And the Adventure Continues Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Cool Guns Auto Erotica Anachronism Stew Sassy Black Woman No Ending Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Accidental Misnaming My Greatest Failure Serious Business Truth in Television Bloodless Carnage "The Reason You Suck" Speech Big "NO!" 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