Tropescilloscope: The Un-Reveal

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

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