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