Tropescilloscope: Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer

An important character is largely ignored in promotional materials. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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