Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

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

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