Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

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

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