Tropescilloscope: The Cavalry

Reinforcements for a last-second dramatic rescue of the heroes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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