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