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