Tropescilloscope: Earn Your Happy Ending

Characters go through hell.... but end up happy in the end as a result. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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