Tropescilloscope: The Un-Reveal

All is set up for The Reveal - and it never happens. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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