Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

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

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