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