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