Tropescilloscope: Riddle for the Ages

A Noodle Incident or What Happened to the Mouse? moment that is meant to never be answered, discussed, or resolved. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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