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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In Name Only Naked People Are Funny Expository Hairstyle Change Final Girl The Casanova Death by Irony Adaptational Villainy Slasher Movie Hero of Another Story Corpsing Rousing Speech Rated M for Manly Paper-Thin Disguise Evil Plan Mundane Made Awesome The Stoic Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Diabolus ex Machina Affably Evil Psychopathic Manchild Sequel Hook Getting Crap Past the Radar Epic Fail Even Evil Has Loved Ones Spiteful Spit Dark Action Girl Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bilingual Bonus Shell-Shocked Veteran Broken Bird Batman Gambit Made of Explodium Badass Normal O.O.C. Is Serious Business Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Insult Backfire Dying Moment of Awesome Logo Joke Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Italian Films Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mood Whiplash Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Badass Longcoat Unusually Uninteresting Sight Romantic False Lead For Want of a Nail Beard of Evil Self-Deprecation Covers Always Lie Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pretty in Mink Silent Movie Naïve Newcomer Betty and Veronica Evil-Detecting Dog Greater-Scope Villain Red Eyes, Take Warning Motor Mouth Hair-Trigger Temper Cool Old Guy Precision F-Strike Hell Is That Noise Slasher Smile Only One Name Boom, Headshot! She Cleans Up Nicely Tap on the Head Bare Your Midriff Fatal Family Photo Ass Shove Action Girl Smug Snake Totally Radical Gone Horribly Right Contrived Coincidence In the Back Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Is a Crapshoot Evil Brit Arc Words Plot Hole Demoted to Extra Evil Is Petty Be Careful What You Wish For Improbable Weapon User Only Sane Man The Cameo Bad "Bad Acting" Not So Above It All Casting Gag Drill Sergeant Nasty Jump Scare Undying Loyalty Hypocrite Spell My Name with an "S" Heroes Want Redheads Fat Bastard Leitmotif Morality Pet Bottomless Magazines Bald of Evil Ascended Extra Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Police are Useless Badass Bookworm Vitriolic Best Buds Fan Disservice The '90s The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Gory Discretion Shot Mooks The Oner The Dog Bites Back Stylistic Suck The Mole Overprotective Dad Calling the Old Man Out The Hero The Bad Guy Wins Dutch Angle Foil Body Horror Anyone Can Die Darkest Hour Even Evil Has Standards Very Loosely Based on a True Story Cool Old Lady Exactly What It Says on the Tin Shoot the Shaggy Dog Manchild Heroic BSoD Take That! 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Double-Meaning Title Never Found the Body I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Redemption Equals Death Deus ex Machina All There in the Manual Rewatch Bonus Dissonant Serenity Fourth Date Marriage Famous Last Words Oh, Crap! Implacable Man Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Eagleland Together in Death Not What It Looks Like Green-Eyed Monster Token Minority Brother–Sister Incest Zombie Stories Heterosexual Life-Partners Break the Cutie There Is No Kill Like Overkill Developing Doomed Characters The Chick Reality Ensues Unreliable Narrator Arranged Marriage What Happened to the Mouse? Riddle for the Ages Bavarian Fire Drill The Reveal Break the Haughty Noodle Incident "Shaggy Dog" Story Vampire Fiction Russian Films Unspoken Plan Guarantee Missing Mom Index of Film Westerns Mighty Whitey Martial Arts Movie Hooker with a Heart of Gold Too Dumb to Live Brick Joke Deal with the Devil One-Word Title Those Wacky Nazis Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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