Tropescilloscope: Informed Ability

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

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