Tropescilloscope: Apocalypse How

A catastrophe occurs on a scale anywhere between localised and the destruction of reality itself. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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