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)

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