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

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

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Hidden Depths Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Badass Grandpa One-Man Army Beta Couple Canon Foreigner Instant Death Bullet Apocalypse How Combat Pragmatist Death Seeker Kill It with Fire Does Not Like Shoes The Un-Reveal Shoot the Shaggy Dog Rape as Drama Wounded Gazelle Gambit Manchild Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Spiteful Spit Death of a Child Cool Shades Not So Stoic Real Life Logo Joke Vacation Films Black and Gray Morality Bullying a Dragon You Killed My Father Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Adaptation Distillation Groin Attack Alpha Bitch The Great Depression Freudian Excuse Boom, Headshot! Downer Ending The Hero Vampire Fiction Monumental Damage Belligerent Sexual Tension Trailers Always Spoil Dressing as the Enemy Cool Old Guy Big Brother Instinct For Want of a Nail Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Took a Level in Jerkass N-Word Privileges Men Are the Expendable Gender Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Intergenerational Friendship Honor Before Reason Action Genre Would Hit a Girl Dark Action Girl Empathic Environment Evil Brit Gory Discretion Shot Shipper on Deck Camera Abuse Stealth Hi/Bye Curse Cut Short Butt-Monkey Never Found the Body Wicked Cultured Chiaroscuro Token Minority Title Drop Pyrrhic Victory Suspiciously Similar Substitute Setting Update Manly Tears Establishing Character Moment Ax-Crazy What the Hell, Hero? 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Madness Mantra Slasher Smile Heroic Sacrifice Kill 'em All Your Head A-Splode Zombie Stories She Cleans Up Nicely Retcon Almost Kiss Evil vs. Evil Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bare Your Midriff Rousing Speech The '70s Black Comedy Rape Real Life Writes the Plot More Dakka Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Ripped from the Headlines Fate Worse than Death Cain and Abel Moment Killer Pimped-Out Dress As You Know Translation Convention Villainous Breakdown Married to the Job Heel–Face Turn Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Totally Radical Plot Hole 20 Minutes into the Future Artistic License – Geography Big Bad Product Placement Betty and Veronica Beauty Is Never Tarnished Video Credits Arc Words Age Lift Unresolved Sexual Tension Storming the Castle Enemy Mine Adaptation Expansion Overly Long Gag Action Girl Exact Words Meaningful Echo Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Tempting Fate Not Using the "Z" Word Made of Explodium Faking the Dead Rule of Funny You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Adaptational Attractiveness Christmas Movies Index Wham Shot Disappeared Dad Posthumous Character Novelization Dirty Coward Scenery Gorn Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Offscreen Teleportation Deal with the Devil The Power of Love Deadpan Snarker After the End Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Sole Survivor Dutch Angle Lock and Load Montage Very Loosely Based on a True Story Rated M for Manly Line-of-Sight Name No Antagonist Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Daylight Horror Rule of Three Badass Boast Facial Horror Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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And the Adventure Continues Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Villain Opening Scene Fiery Redhead The Load Ambiguous Ending Face Death with Dignity Aluminum Christmas Trees Public Domain Feature Films World of Ham Bowdlerise Credits Gag Blood from the Mouth Jump Scare Our Zombies Are Different Put on a Bus Alliterative Name The Quiet One Demoted to Extra Reasonable Authority Figure Mercy Kill No-Sell An Arm and a Leg As the Good Book Says... Would Hurt a Child Meaningful Name Word of God Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Martial Arts Movie Laser-Guided Karma Abhorrent Admirer Show Within a Show Black Best Friend Break the Haughty It Can Think Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Based on a True Story Improbable Aiming Skills Grey and Gray Morality Take a Third Option Artistic License – Law Insistent Terminology Mad Scientist Death by Adaptation Sports Stories The Atoner Shirtless Scene Danny Peary Cult Movies List I Want My Beloved to Be Happy No Ending Thriller Funny Foreigner Dull Surprise Foil Eiffel Tower Effect Oh, Crap! Rasputinian Death Call-Back Intrepid Reporter "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Cameo Bottomless Magazines Woman Scorned Big Fancy House Homage Eagleland What You Are in the Dark Yandere Meet Cute "Shaggy Dog" Story Twist Ending Missing Mom Sequel Escalation Crazy Jealous Guy Earn Your Happy Ending Race Against the Clock Male Frontal Nudity Dramedy Double Entendre Villain Ball Politically Incorrect Villain Disproportionate Retribution Fantasy Films Pet the Dog Interrupted Suicide Adults Are Useless Berserk Button Only a Flesh Wound Badass Bookworm Deconstruction Random Events Plot Anti-Villain The Place Bond One-Liner Villain Song Truth in Television '80s Hair Psychological Thriller Obfuscating Stupidity Small Name, Big Ego Hollywood Darkness Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hero Antagonist Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Smug Snake Crucified Hero Shot Brutal Honesty Adult Fear Only in It for the Money Funny Background Event Playing Gertrude Eureka Moment Auto Erotica Manic Pixie Dream Girl Pre-Mortem One-Liner Camp Gay Smoking Is Cool Pragmatic Villainy Police Brutality Naked People Are Funny The '50s You Have Failed Me Costume Porn Knife Nut Up to Eleven Red Oni, Blue Oni Big Applesauce Getting Crap Past the Radar Anti-Hero Screw This, I'm Outta Here! An Axe to Grind Film Noir Index Unwitting Instigator of Doom Unusually Uninteresting Sight Rich Bitch Eye Scream Country Matters Good Is Not Nice In Medias Res Gorn Jerk Jock Fan Disservice Evil Sounds Deep Easily Forgiven Anachronism Stew Brick Joke The Casanova Large Ham Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? I Did What I Had to Do British Films Alas, Poor Villain Documentary Mooks Pretty in Mink Mind Screw A Minor Kidroduction Determinator Hooker with a Heart of Gold Animated Credits Opening Black Dude Dies First All Girls Want Bad Boys Hope Spot It Will Never Catch On Death by Sex Older Than They Look Offscreen Moment of Awesome Sacrificial Lion Broken Pedestal Bloody Hilarious Wrong Genre Savvy Only Known by Their Nickname Mugging the Monster Leaning on the Fourth Wall Dirty Cop Throwing Your Sword Always Works I Need a Freaking Drink Well-Intentioned Extremist Evil Is Petty Big Eater Recycled IN SPACE! Faux Affably Evil Brother–Sister Incest Running Gag Developing Doomed Characters NO INDOOR VOICE Cool Car Ghost Fiction Protagonist Title Romantic False Lead Epic Fail Visual Pun Anguished Declaration of Love Adaptation Name Change Adaptational Villainy Aside Glance The Dog Bites Back Dirty Old Man Taking You with Me True Companions All Just a Dream Black Comedy Cruel and Unusual Death Together in Death Deliberate Values Dissonance A Date with Rosie Palms Skewed Priorities Bolivian Army Ending Central Theme Fat Bastard Noodle Incident Take That! Gold Digger Bad "Bad Acting" War Is Hell Properly Paranoid One-Word Title Big "NO!" Revenge Bloodier and Gorier Foregone Conclusion Bilingual Bonus Historical Hero Upgrade The Hero Dies Parental Abandonment Works Set in World War II Hell Is That Noise Mr. Fanservice My Beloved Smother Everyone Has Standards Dogged Nice Guy Bound and Gagged Evil Counterpart Frame-Up Big Bad Duumvirate Not So Different Superhero Not What It Looks Like Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Catch-Phrase Hair-Trigger Temper Arranged Marriage Meaningful Background Event You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Ass Shove Driven to Suicide Chewing the Scenery Cowboy Cop Department of Redundancy Department Comically Missing the Point Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Informed Ability Outrun the Fireball Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Badass Longcoat The Bully Corrupt Corporate Executive A Father to His Men Those Two Bad Guys Stalker with a Crush Adaptational Heroism Hate Sink Only Sane Man The X of Y Accidental Misnaming Casting Gag Sadistic Choice The Ghost Those Wacky Nazis Mood Whiplash Punny Name Shell-Shocked Veteran Actor Allusion Fish out of Water The Faceless Scary Black Man Punch-Clock Villain Adapted Out Morality Pet Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Agony of the Feet He Knows Too Much Wham Line Motor Mouth Man on Fire Insane Troll Logic Coming-of-Age Story Off with His Head! From Nobody to Nightmare Sinister Minister Armor-Piercing Question Spell My Name with an "S" Russian Films Race Lift Did Not Get the Girl Bunny-Ears Lawyer Redshirt Army Hollywood Law Evil-Detecting Dog Dramatic Gun Cock Evil Laugh Market-Based Title Drives Like Crazy What Happened to the Mouse? Adaptation Dye-Job Gilligan Cut Ungrateful Bastard Jitter Cam Flipping the Bird Failed a Spot Check For the Evulz He Who Fights Monsters The Ditz Genre Savvy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Laughing Mad Kubrick Stare Re-Cut Straight Gay Hero of Another Story Science Fiction Films Friend to All Children Damsel in Distress Historical-Domain Character Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Award-Bait Song Genre Throwback Fire-Forged Friends Last-Name Basis Fourth Date Marriage Half the Man He Used to Be Karmic Death Bury Your Gays Authority Equals Asskicking Fanservice Extra Dark Is Not Evil Ominous Latin Chanting Implacable Man Pay Evil unto Evil Psycho for Hire Defrosting Ice Queen Gainax Ending Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Character Development Sealed Evil in a Can Peek-a-Boo Corpse Nice Guy Batman Gambit Femme Fatale Bavarian Fire Drill Same Language Dub Paper-Thin Disguise Expository Hairstyle Change No Name Given Canadian Movies Depraved Bisexual Freeze-Frame Bonus Those Two Guys Creative Closing Credits This Is Gonna Suck Shout-Out Fake Shemp Heterosexual Life-Partners Mistaken for Gay Dumb Blonde Fatal Family Photo Sexy Discretion Shot Sequel Hook Suspiciously Specific Denial Body Horror Affectionate Parody Handicapped Badass Daddy's Girl Disney Death Despair Event Horizon Adaptational Badass And I Must Scream Artistic License – Gun Safety The Stinger Biopic Plucky Comic Relief Artistic License – Military Fantastic Racism Needs Wiki Magic Love Cat Scare Vomit Indiscretion Shot Manipulative Bastard