Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

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

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