Tropescilloscope: The Un-Reveal

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

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