Tropescilloscope: Riddle for the Ages

A Noodle Incident or What Happened to the Mouse? moment that is meant to never be answered, discussed, or resolved. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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