Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

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

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