Tropescilloscope: The Cavalry

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

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