Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

Teasing the fandom with some Will They or Won't They subtext. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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