Tropescilloscope: Informed Ability

A character reputedly has a certain ability or attribute, but the audience never sees it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Only One Name Cat Scare Wham Line Authority Equals Asskicking Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Naïve Newcomer Crazy-Prepared Sadistic Choice All Men Are Perverts timeperiod Historical-Domain Character From Bad to Worse Faking the Dead Male Frontal Nudity Alas, Poor Villain There Is No Kill Like Overkill Meet Cute Babies Ever After Broken Pedestal Accidental Murder Meaningful Echo Science Fiction Films Ass Shove Attempted Rape Sequel Escalation Guile Hero Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Fatal Flaw Kick the Dog Camera Abuse Evil Counterpart Here We Go Again! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Epic Fail Downer Ending Card-Carrying Villain Playing Gertrude Mundane Made Awesome Woman Scorned Pet the Dog Really Gets Around Bad "Bad Acting" The Stinger Random Events Plot Chewing the Scenery Bloodless Carnage Your Head A-Splode Intergenerational Friendship Unreliable Narrator Instant Death Bullet Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Villain Song Jump Scare Translation Convention The '80s Damsel in Distress Once More, with Clarity! 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Big Damn Heroes Market-Based Title Time Skip Actually Pretty Funny Butt-Monkey N-Word Privileges Conspicuous CG Public Domain Feature Films An Axe to Grind Stalker with a Crush Stepford Smiler Knight Templar Epic Movie Antagonist Title Arc Words Redemption Equals Death Heroic BSoD I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Reality Has No Subtitles Bar Brawl Mood Whiplash Obviously Evil Tranquil Fury Worthy Opponent Black Best Friend Loads and Loads of Characters The Dog Bites Back Femme Fatale Hollywood Darkness Lighter and Softer Dramedy An Aesop Jerkass Fanservice Retcon Star-Crossed Lovers Hidden Depths No Celebrities Were Harmed Only Sane Man Only a Flesh Wound Jerkass Has a Point Happily Married Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer After the End NO INDOOR VOICE Punch-Clock Villain Five-Man Band Defrosting Ice Queen What You Are in the Dark True Companions Camp Gay Ripped from the Headlines Yandere Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Smart Guy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Pretty in Mink The Brute Informed Ability Tagline Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Author Avatar Fingore One-Man Army Obstructive Bureaucrat Stealth Hi/Bye Faux Affably Evil Adult Fear Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Genre Savvy "Awesome McCool" Name Missing Mom All There in the Manual Love Triangle Never Trust a Trailer Suspiciously Specific Denial Lock and Load Montage What Happened to the Mouse? Peek-a-Boo Corpse Arch-Enemy Fantastic Racism A.I. 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