Tropescilloscope: The Un-Reveal

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

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Villainous Breakdown Sexy Discretion Shot Body Horror Distracted by the Sexy Facial Horror Stock Footage Not Even Bothering with the Accent Vomit Discretion Shot What Happened to the Mouse? Interrupted Suicide Kids Are Cruel Spiritual Successor The End... Or Is It? Alas, Poor Villain Freudian Excuse Failed a Spot Check Disguised in Drag Implacable Man Catapult Nightmare Spanner in the Works Throwing Your Sword Always Works Obviously Evil Real Life Writes the Plot Eureka Moment Honor Before Reason Abhorrent Admirer Eiffel Tower Effect Epic Fail Almost Kiss Adaptation Dye-Job Suddenly SHOUTING! Really Gets Around The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Affably Evil Exact Words Rich Bitch Greater-Scope Villain Dumb Blonde Back from the Dead As You Know Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Black Comedy German Films Crazy-Prepared Dark and Troubled Past Police Brutality Broken Aesop Book-Ends Romantic Comedy Big Bad Duumvirate Adorkable Evil Plan Final Girl Dark Reprise Hollywood Darkness Rule of Funny Fiery Redhead Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Betty and Veronica Evil Laugh Knife Nut Parental Substitute Bunny-Ears Lawyer All Men Are Perverts Artistic License – Biology Fourth Date Marriage Reckless Gun Usage Irony The Smurfette Principle Red Shirt Manipulative Bastard Catch-Phrase British Films Show Within a Show Big Applesauce Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Documentary World of Ham Evil Sounds Deep You Killed My Father Ambiguous Disorder timeperiod Daylight Horror Rape as Drama Actually Pretty Funny Heroic Sacrifice Motor Mouth Posthumous Character Gold Digger Man on Fire Only in It for the Money Pyrrhic Victory Dramatic Irony Works Set in World War II Anti-Villain "Awesome McCool" Name Call-Forward Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dark Is Not Evil Scenery Gorn Aluminum Christmas Trees Crucified Hero Shot Tempting Fate Fun with Acronyms Serial Killer Fanservice Extra Morality Pet Killed Mid-Sentence Death Glare Dissonant Serenity Wrong Genre Savvy Public Domain Feature Films Heel Realization Heterosexual Life-Partners Never Found the Body "Well Done, Son!" Guy Science Fiction Films Berserk Button Meaningful Echo Happily Married The Place Shout-Out Hollywood Law Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Chessmaster Mercy Kill Diabolus ex Machina Cloudcuckoolander Karmic Death Taking the Bullet Ascended Extra Bolivian Army Ending I Did What I Had to Do Punny Name The Stinger Big-Bad Ensemble Psycho for Hire Evil Brit Gratuitous English Jerkass Has a Point The Brute Bloodless Carnage Action Girl Exactly What It Says on the Tin Whole Plot Reference Break the Haughty Sadistic Choice Gory Discretion Shot Gorn For Want of a Nail Brutal Honesty Beware the Nice Ones Translation Convention Off with His Head! Batman Gambit An Aesop Antagonist Title Animal Motifs Took a Level in Badass No Name Given Recycled IN SPACE! Light Is Not Good Sole Survivor Karma Houdini Psychological Thriller Funny Foreigner Dull Surprise The Atoner Tagline Dwindling Party Instant Death Bullet Good Is Not Nice Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday More Dakka Mooks Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Offscreen Teleportation Curse Cut Short War Is Hell Deconstruction Crapsack World BFG Does Not Like Shoes Even Evil Has Loved Ones Blood from the Mouth Military and Warfare Films An Axe to Grind Beauty Is Never Tarnished Took a Level in Jerkass Hero of Another Story Funny Background Event The Cavalry Despair Event Horizon Cold-Blooded Torture Jerk with a Heart of Gold Evil-Detecting Dog Stylistic Suck Important Haircut A Date with Rosie Palms Black and Gray Morality Papa Wolf Australian Movies Unwitting Instigator of Doom Better to Die than Be Killed Homage Overly Long Gag Expository Hairstyle Change Fantasy Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Your Cheating Heart The '60s Pragmatic Villainy Pre-Mortem One-Liner And the Adventure Continues Stealth Pun Sci-Fi Horror Actor Allusion Rated M for Manly Let's Get Dangerous! Advertised Extra Cassandra Truth Protagonist Title Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Mr. Exposition Reality Is Unrealistic Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Death of a Child Kick the Dog Half the Man He Used to Be Horror Comedy Daddy's Girl Bowdlerise Artistic License – Law You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Badass Grandpa Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bring My Brown Pants Male Frontal Nudity Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Fate Worse than Death Would Hurt a Child Based on a True Story 20 Minutes into the Future There Is No Kill Like Overkill How We Got Here Plot Hole Up to Eleven Zombie Stories Arranged Marriage Married to the Job Rule of Cool Frame-Up Faux Affably Evil Domestic Abuse Rule of Symbolism All Just a Dream Bait-and-Switch Cluster F-Bomb Shirtless Scene Race Lift Alliterative Name And Starring Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Dragon Deliberately Monochrome The Alcoholic Big Eater Random Events Plot Flashback All There in the Script Make It Look Like an Accident Creator Cameo Mighty Whitey Creepy Child Malevolent Masked Men Famous Last Words Laughing Mad In Name Only Adaptational Heroism Our Vampires Are Different Woman in White Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Artistic License – Gun Safety NO INDOOR VOICE Neck Lift Sports Stories Dutch Angle Insane Troll Logic Death by Irony Big Fancy House Anachronic Order Broken Pedestal Training Montage Race Against the Clock The Hero Vacation Films Hair-Trigger Temper Fainting Men Are the Expendable Gender Due to the Dead Costume Porn Big Brother Instinct Only One Name Cowboy Cop Manly Tears Artistic License – Military Bullying a Dragon Small Name, Big Ego Grey and Gray Morality Earn Your Happy Ending Continuity Nod Nice Guy Precision F-Strike Straight Gay Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Rewatch Bonus Undying Loyalty Bittersweet Ending Accidental Misnaming Horror Films Flipping the Bird Very Loosely Based on a True Story Retired Badass The Big Guy Unresolved Sexual Tension Major Injury Underreaction Film Series Face–Heel Turn Defrosting Ice Queen Drives Like Crazy Badass in a Nice Suit Hypocrite Handicapped Badass One-Man Army Victoria's Secret Compartment Early-Bird Cameo She Cleans Up Nicely The Reveal Lampshade Hanging Chase Scene Suspiciously Specific Denial The Ghost Cool Car Central Theme Chiaroscuro Eye Scream Mood Whiplash Humans Are Bastards Poor Communication Kills Historical Villain Upgrade Disappeared Dad Silence Is Golden Parental Neglect Genre Shift Ambiguous Ending Sanity Slippage Alpha Bitch Amusing Injuries No Ending Drowning My Sorrows Card-Carrying Villain Gender Flip folderlabel Rousing Speech Disney Death Action Genre Cool Guns Contrived Coincidence Our Zombies Are Different Award-Bait Song Slasher Movie Danny Peary Cult Movies List Does This Remind You of Anything? Author Avatar The Load Slashed Throat Ax-Crazy Death Seeker Yandere The Lost Lenore Affectionate Parody Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fan Disservice The '50s It Will Never Catch On Fingore Italian Films Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Remake Imagine Spot Foregone Conclusion Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Hell Is That Noise Stalker with a Crush Arc Words B-Movie Department of Redundancy Department Intergenerational Friendship Male Gaze Hate Sink Mr. Fanservice Brick Joke Badass Boast Pimped-Out Dress Lighter and Softer Blood Knight The Oner Closed Circle Moment Killer No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Dog Bites Back The X of Y Parental Abandonment Heel–Face Turn Naïve Newcomer Ominous Latin Chanting The Starscream Take That! Serious Business Wham Shot Getting Crap Past the Radar Pretty in Mink Index of Film Westerns Darkest Hour Attempted Rape The Smart Guy Improbable Weapon User Narrator The Un-Reveal Gilligan Cut Hoist by His Own Petard No OSHA Compliance Offscreen Moment of Awesome Missing Mom Vampire Fiction Sacrificial Lion Friend to All Children After the End Same Language Dub Chewing the Scenery Together in Death Butt-Monkey Rasputinian Death He Who Fights Monsters Double-Meaning Title A Father to His Men What the Hell, Hero? Only a Flesh Wound Psychopathic Manchild Spell My Name with an "S" Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Jump Scare May–December Romance Adaptation Name Change Air-Vent Passageway Smug Snake Anyone Can Die Unusually Uninteresting Sight Maybe Ever After Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Word of God Jerkass An Arm and a Leg Setting Update Insistent Terminology Love at First Sight The Chick "The Reason You Suck" Speech Scary Black Man Artistic License – Geography Sir Swears-a-Lot She's Got Legs Country Matters Novelization The Sociopath Freeze-Frame Bonus Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Stoic Only Sane Man Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Historical-Domain Character Shipper on Deck Foil This Is Gonna Suck Nothing Is Scarier Anachronism Stew