Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

The big dramatic plot twist or revelation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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