Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

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

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