Tropescilloscope: After the End

Story takes place after civilization falls. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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