Tropescilloscope: The Reveal
The big dramatic plot twist or revelation. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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Bolivian Army Ending
Establishing Character Moment
Protagonist Title
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Deadpan Snarker
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Horror Comedy
Defiant to the End
Politically Incorrect Villain
Twist Ending
The Hero Dies
The Mafia
Jerk Jock
One-Word Title
Big Fancy House
Narrator
Hidden Depths
Parental Abandonment
Evil Is Hammy
Jitter Cam
Artistic License Geography
My Greatest Failure
Hollywood Darkness
It Can Think
Agony of the Feet
Missing Mom
Henpecked Husband
Armor-Piercing Question
Improbable Weapon User
No Name Given
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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
MayDecember 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
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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
HeelFace 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
BrotherSister 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
FaceHeel 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