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