Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

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

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