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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The '90s Retirony Pragmatic Adaptation Stock Footage Video Credits Daddy's Girl Epic Movie Imagine Spot Offscreen Moment of Awesome Based on a True Story Cold-Blooded Torture Made of Explodium Race Lift French Films Superhero Make It Look Like an Accident Sequel Hook Chekhov's Gun Not Even Bothering with the Accent Noodle Incident Rousing Speech Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Kill 'em All Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bond One-Liner Deadpan Snarker Slashed Throat Random Events Plot Works Set in World War II Naked People Are Funny Death by Adaptation Evil vs. Evil Driven to Suicide "Well Done, Son!" Guy Logo Joke Extremely Short Timespan Bad "Bad Acting" Adaptation Distillation Call-Forward Lampshade Hanging Artistic License – History Groin Attack Line-of-Sight Name Dramedy Get Out! Once More, with Clarity! Parental Incest The Oner Domestic Abuse Shown Their Work Chekhov's Gunman Cluster F-Bomb Eagleland True Companions Storming the Castle Title Drop Chase Scene Brother–Sister Incest Retcon Fainting Spiritual Successor Accidental Misnaming Tap on the Head Ass Shove Eiffel Tower Effect Humans Are Bastards Dark Is Not Evil Artistic License – Biology Foil Protagonist Title Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Evil Plan Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Animal Motifs Mad Scientist There Is No Kill Like Overkill And the Adventure Continues Rich Bitch Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Damsel in Distress Empathic Environment Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dual Wielding Enemy Mine The Chick Took a Level in Badass Revenge Bavarian Fire Drill Neck Snap Sexy Discretion Shot Early-Bird Cameo Parental Abandonment Skewed Priorities Word of God Friend to All Children Loads and Loads of Characters Idiot Ball The Load Bad Boss Establishing Character Moment Beware the Nice Ones Fun with Acronyms Pragmatic Villainy Heroes Want Redheads Greater-Scope Villain B-Movie Star-Crossed Lovers Hong Kong Films Hair-Trigger Temper Grey and Gray Morality Arch-Enemy Armor-Piercing Question Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Scare Chord Freudian Excuse Beard of Evil Meet Cute Flashback The Sociopath Dutch Angle Brainless Beauty Instant Death Bullet Obfuscating Stupidity Pretty in Mink Author Appeal Insane Troll Logic The Cavalry Truth in Television Chekhov's Skill Here We Go Again! 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Dogged Nice Guy Took a Level in Jerkass Disappeared Dad Ambiguous Disorder The Musical Romantic Comedy Dissonant Serenity Four-Temperament Ensemble Funny Foreigner Setting Update Action Survivor Karma Houdini The Casanova Stealth Pun My Greatest Failure Artistic License – Geography Downer Ending Wham Shot Fatal Flaw Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Breaking the Fourth Wall Male Frontal Nudity Death by Sex Karmic Death In the Back Scary Black Man Villain Song Heroic BSoD Anti-Villain Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sir Swears-a-Lot Men Are the Expendable Gender Manly Tears Canadian Movies Ghost Fiction You Have Outlived Your Usefulness O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Atoner Red Shirt And Starring Hell Is That Noise "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Big "NO!" Light Is Not Good Taking the Bullet Determinator Extreme Doormat Vitriolic Best Buds Children Are Innocent Gender Flip The Smart Guy Toplessness from the Back Curb-Stomp Battle Meaningful Background Event Adaptation Dye-Job Redshirt Army As Himself Belligerent Sexual Tension Our Zombies Are Different Hollywood Darkness Police Brutality Market-Based Title Actually Pretty Funny Yandere My Beloved Smother La Résistance Catapult Nightmare Did Not Get the Girl Dull Surprise Your Cheating Heart Manipulative Bastard Villain Opening Scene Reasonable Authority Figure Stepford Smiler Ominous Latin Chanting Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold N-Word Privileges Knight Templar Ambiguously Gay No-Sell Unusual Euphemism Suddenly SHOUTING! Drives Like Crazy Canon Foreigner Central Theme Mugging the Monster Bald of Evil Defrosting Ice Queen Man on Fire Real Life Writes the Plot Award-Bait Song The X of Y Cloudcuckoolander Wham Line Black Dude Dies First Undying Loyalty Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Serious Business My God, What Have I Done? Final Girl Developing Doomed Characters Black Comedy Vampire Fiction Lighter and Softer BFG The '80s Cowboy Cop Continuity Nod Fantasy Films The Great Depression Offscreen Teleportation One-Word Title Wicked Cultured Reality Ensues Red Right Hand Suspiciously Similar Substitute Christmas Movies Index It Can Think Dramatic Irony Shut Up, Hannibal! Stylistic Suck Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Worthy Opponent Accidental Murder Training Montage Dirty Cop Badass Boast Room Full of Crazy Cool Guns Love Triangle Death of a Child Back from the Dead Shower Scene Say My Name Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Betty and Veronica Historical Hero Upgrade Mighty Whitey The Bully The Mole Guns Akimbo Animated Credits Opening Sequel Escalation Genre Shift Improbable Weapon User As You Know Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Hollywood Law Action Prologue Every Car Is a Pinto Historical Villain Upgrade Crazy-Prepared Red Oni, Blue Oni Eureka Moment Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Loophole Abuse Chiaroscuro Ms. Fanservice Shout-Out Jerk Jock Bring My Brown Pants Composite Character The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Law Unspoken Plan Guarantee It's Personal Bloodier and Gorier Kick the Son of a Bitch Pay Evil unto Evil Off with His Head! Heterosexual Life-Partners Adapted Out Adaptational Villainy Evil Laugh Corrupt Corporate Executive Smug Snake Naïve Newcomer Russian Films Married to the Job Slasher Movie The Chessmaster Bottomless Magazines Catch-Phrase Action Genre Twist Ending Good Is Not Nice Australian Movies Killed Mid-Sentence Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Is a Crapshoot Closed Circle And I Must Scream Suspiciously Specific Denial Pyrrhic Victory Evil Brit Sealed Evil in a Can Dumb Blonde Evil Counterpart Dark Action Girl Big-Bad Ensemble Hypocrite The Ditz Fire-Forged Friends The Film of the Book Only One Name Bland-Name Product Not Quite Dead Anguished Declaration of Love Kubrick Stare Faking the Dead Shoot the Shaggy Dog Martial Arts Movie Bound and Gagged Eldritch Abomination Ship Tease Throwing Your Sword Always Works Last-Name Basis Music Stories What the Hell, Hero? Not So Stoic Air-Vent Passageway Death Seeker Evil Is Petty Narrator Break the Haughty Irony Amusing Injuries Ascended Extra I Need a Freaking Drink Fat Bastard Sassy Black Woman Obstructive Bureaucrat Hate Sink Fate Worse than Death Getting Crap Past the Radar Crapsack World Big Brother Instinct Insistent Terminology All for Nothing From Bad to Worse Our Vampires Are Different Malevolent Masked Men Green-Eyed Monster Villainous Breakdown Properly Paranoid Index of Film Westerns Conspicuous CG Creepy Child Gone Horribly Right Affectionate Parody Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Vamp From Nobody to Nightmare Sadistic Choice Outrun the Fireball Cool Shades Blackmail Those Two Guys He Who Fights Monsters Sacrificial Lion Genre Throwback The Starscream This Is Gonna Suck Only Known by Their Nickname Face–Heel Turn Blood Knight All There in the Script It Will Never Catch On Nice Guy Smoking Is Cool Slasher Smile Have a Gay Old Time Exact Words Real Life Up to Eleven Genre Savvy Would Hit a Girl Mind Screw Hypocritical Humor Jerk with a Heart of Gold Film Series Eyepatch of Power Implacable Man Annoying Younger Sibling Adult Fear Trailers Always Spoil Really Gets Around Leave the Camera Running Visual Pun All There in the Manual Major Injury Underreaction Fanservice Badass Normal Credits Gag Evil Is Hammy Anachronism Stew The Power of Love Cool Old Lady Dramatic Gun Cock May–December Romance Dirty Coward Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Big Applesauce Not So Different How We Got Here Pimped-Out Dress Punch-Clock Villain The Voiceless Easily Forgiven Adaptational Heroism Bowdlerise Sanity Slippage Soft Glass Deus ex Machina Ax-Crazy Awesome, but Impractical Hero of Another Story Running Gag Leitmotif Refuge in Audacity Redemption Equals Death Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Morality Pet Reckless Gun Usage Psycho for Hire Homage Failed a Spot Check I Did What I Had to Do Early Installment Weirdness Spiteful Spit Red Herring "Shaggy Dog" Story Knife Nut Black Best Friend Gory Discretion Shot Recycled IN SPACE! Covers Always Lie Silence Is Golden Mercy Kill Disney Villain Death Not What It Looks Like An Arm and a Leg Dark Reprise Intrepid Reporter Beauty Is Never Tarnished Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Laser-Guided Karma Fourth Date Marriage Blatant Lies Self-Deprecation