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