Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

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

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