Tropescilloscope: The Cavalry

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

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