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