Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

The big dramatic plot twist or revelation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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