Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

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

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