Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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