Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

A plot point or twist is revealed in the trailer. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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