Tropescilloscope: Informed Ability

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

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