Tropescilloscope: The Cavalry

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

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