Tropescilloscope: The Cavalry

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

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