Tropescilloscope: The Un-Reveal

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

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All Girls Want Bad Boys Obstructive Bureaucrat Line-of-Sight Name British Films Novelization Evil Is Hammy Overly Long Gag Amoral Attorney Pay Evil unto Evil Annoying Younger Sibling Mythology Gag Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Hero Antagonist Large Ham Fire-Forged Friends Only a Flesh Wound Cold-Blooded Torture Artistic License – Biology In the Back Henpecked Husband Gory Discretion Shot Never Trust a Trailer Hope Spot Depraved Bisexual No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fish out of Water Improbable Aiming Skills Film Series Award-Bait Song Dark and Troubled Past Grievous Bottley Harm Action Girl Properly Paranoid Historical Villain Upgrade Crazy Jealous Guy Slasher Smile "The Reason You Suck" Speech Gone Horribly Right Well-Intentioned Extremist Dark Reprise Call-Forward Getting Crap Past the Radar Genre Shift Artistic License – Physics Evil vs. Evil "Where Are They Now?" 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Failed a Spot Check No Ending Not So Different The Dreaded The Hero Dies He Knows Too Much Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Took a Level in Badass Karmic Death Animal Motifs Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Gun Safety I Did What I Had to Do How We Got Here Crucified Hero Shot And the Adventure Continues Retired Badass Reality Has No Subtitles All Men Are Perverts The Stoner Bloodless Carnage Villain with Good Publicity Rule of Cool Race Against the Clock Pragmatic Villainy Drives Like Crazy Gilligan Cut All Just a Dream Continuity Nod Kubrick Stare Rousing Speech The Voiceless Slap-Slap-Kiss Offscreen Teleportation Bond One-Liner Bare Your Midriff Fatal Family Photo Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Even Evil Has Standards Destination Defenestration Truth in Television You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Anyone Can Die Honor Before Reason Imagine Spot Protagonist Title Pyrrhic Victory Artistic License – History Facial Horror Obviously Evil Scenery Gorn Chiaroscuro Mistaken for Gay Adaptational Attractiveness Green-Eyed Monster Psychopathic Manchild Taking You with Me A Minor Kidroduction It Will Never Catch On Ship Tease Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Redshirt Army Mexican Standoff Needs Wiki Magic Love Dirty Cop Big "NO!" The Bad Guy Wins Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Shirtless Scene Laser-Guided Karma And I Must Scream Ungrateful Bastard Aluminum Christmas Trees Wicked Cultured Eagleland Adaptation Distillation Offscreen Moment of Awesome Brother–Sister Incest After the End Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Adaptation Expansion Suspiciously Specific Denial Dark Is Not Evil Credits Gag Rated M for Manly Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Load Motor Mouth Chewing the Scenery Fainting Historical In-Joke Awesome, but Impractical Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Is Serious Business Car Fu Captain Ersatz Race Lift An Axe to Grind Parental Substitute Foregone Conclusion He Who Fights Monsters Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fatal Flaw Air-Vent Passageway Spared by the Adaptation Bad "Bad Acting" Better to Die than Be Killed Refuge in Audacity Take That! 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Guy Disproportionate Retribution Music Stories No OSHA Compliance The Bully The Cavalry Slashed Throat The '80s Monumental Damage Leaning on the Fourth Wall Advertised Extra Bury Your Gays Rape as Drama Vitriolic Best Buds Attempted Rape Loophole Abuse Does Not Like Shoes Rule of Symbolism Antagonist Title Dumb Blonde Bar Brawl Flipping the Bird Badass Longcoat Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dropped a Bridge on Him Tap on the Head Together in Death Due to the Dead Fantasy Films Beta Couple Ascended Extra Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fanservice Extra Unresolved Sexual Tension Sealed Evil in a Can Big Eater Babies Ever After Spiritual Successor Index of Film Westerns Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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