Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

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

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