Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

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

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