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