Tropescilloscope: Ship Tease

Teasing the fandom with some Will They or Won't They subtext. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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