Tropescilloscope: The Un-Reveal

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

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