Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

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

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