Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

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

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