Tropescilloscope: The Un-Reveal

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

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