Tropescilloscope: The Cavalry

Reinforcements for a last-second dramatic rescue of the heroes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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