Tropescilloscope: What Happened to the Mouse?

A minor plot point or character disappears from the narrative without resolution. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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