Tropescilloscope: The Un-Reveal

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

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