Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

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

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