Tropescilloscope: Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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