Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character whose importance is downplayed in the trailer.

  • Straight: Sir Nautappear has an important role in Tropeland: The Movie, however, he only makes a small cameo in the trailers for the film.
  • Exaggerated: Sir Nautappear is the main character and appears in every single shot of the film, but is not even mentioned in the trailers
  • Downplayed: Sir Nautappear is one of the supporting characters, and doesn't appear in the trailer
  • Justified: Sir Nautappear's role is to reveal a shocking twist, so he isn't included in the trailers to prevent Trailers Always Spoil
  • Inverted: Sir Nautappear appears in the trailer and looks like a major character, but doesn't appear in The Movie or plays a minor role.
  • Subverted: Sir Nautappear does appear in a good chunk of the trailer...
  • Double Subverted: ...However, it is revealed that was just Sir Nautappear's Evil Twin, Sir Doesappear
  • Parodied: The whole trailer is filled with background characters who doesn't even have dialogue.
    • The more often a character(s) appear in the trailer, the less of his importance to The Movie.
  • Zig Zagged: Sir Nautappear appears in the trailer, but that was just The Hero disguised as Sir Nautappear. But suddenly, Sir Nautappear does appear right next to The Hero... no, that's just The Lancer whose wearing Sir Nautappear's cloak. Yet you see Sir Nautappear blocking the Gang's path... Oh wait, that's just Sir Doesappear...
  • Averted: Sir Nautappear DOES APPEAR IN THE TRAILER, end of story.
  • Enforced: The executes believe Sir Nautappear doesn't have an important role, so they just don't include him in the trailers that much.
  • Lampshaded: "Wait a second! Where's Sir Nautappear?" "He's not in this trailer" "Oh, right."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Sir Nautappear knows his role isn't that big enough for him to appear in the trailers, so he tries to get more screen-time in the film, so that he will appear in the trailers.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "You'd think that Sir Nautappear would actually be in the trailer, given his role in the film!"

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