Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

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

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