Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

Subversion of presupposed ending. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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