Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

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

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