Tropescilloscope: Earn Your Happy Ending

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

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Hypocritical Humor Parental Incest Well-Intentioned Extremist Chewing the Scenery Brainless Beauty Storming the Castle Creepy Child I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Hair-Trigger Temper Villain Ball Spared by the Adaptation Paper-Thin Disguise It Can Think Face Death with Dignity Retired Badass Obstructive Bureaucrat Take That! Death by Irony Woman in White Slasher Movie Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Loophole Abuse Rewatch Bonus No Name Given Double Entendre Never Trust a Trailer Mercy Kill Hate Sink Everyone Has Standards Bavarian Fire Drill Manipulative Bastard Rule of Symbolism Madness Mantra Superhero Evil Sounds Deep Mama Bear Outrun the Fireball Book-Ends Berserk Button Spell My Name with an "S" Beta Couple Beard of Evil Retcon Henpecked Husband Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Catch-Phrase Adaptational Attractiveness The Big Guy A Father to His Men Cat Fight Off with His Head! As Himself Love at First Sight Smoking Is Cool Despair Event Horizon Plot Hole An Aesop All There in the Manual Eyepatch of Power Really Gets Around The Ace Gone Horribly Right Agony of the Feet Your Head A-Splode Animated Credits Opening Awesome, but Impractical Babies Ever After Daddy's Girl Big Eater Bloodier and Gorier Comically Missing the Point This Is Gonna Suck Soft Glass Dull Surprise Big Fancy House Annoying Younger Sibling In Name Only Celebrity Paradox Domestic Abuse Mugging the Monster Heel Realization Dark and Troubled Past Skewed Priorities Not So Above It All Irony Not What It Looks Like No OSHA Compliance Works Set in World War II Credits Gag Deliberate Values Dissonance Small Name, Big Ego Breaking the Fourth Wall Japanese Films Blood from the Mouth Our Zombies Are Different Arc Words Offscreen Moment of Awesome Kill It with Fire Heterosexual Life-Partners Stealth Pun Groin Attack Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Cool Old Guy Sealed Evil in a Can Parental Neglect Expository Hairstyle Change Rule of Cool Documentary Honor Before Reason Hero of Another Story Famous Last Words Insane Troll Logic Ominous Latin Chanting Fish out of Water Chekhov's Skill Undying Loyalty Have a Gay Old Time She's Got Legs Evil vs. Evil A God Am I Sports Stories A.I. Is a Crapshoot All Girls Want Bad Boys Logo Joke Imagine Spot Not Even Bothering with the Accent Tempting Fate Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Badass Grandpa Villain Protagonist Nice Guy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Say My Name Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Slap-Slap-Kiss Closed Circle Demonic Possession Cruel and Unusual Death Flipping the Bird Country Matters Developing Doomed Characters Never Found the Body Abhorrent Admirer The Remake Let's Get Dangerous! 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In the Back Decoy Protagonist Real Life I'm a Humanitarian Heel–Face Turn Actually Pretty Funny Fate Worse than Death The '60s Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Nice Hat Left the Background Music On Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" "Shaggy Dog" Story Death by Sex The Atoner Jerk Jock Brutal Honesty Final Girl More Dakka Beware the Nice Ones Only Known by Their Nickname Black and Gray Morality Even Evil Has Loved Ones No Celebrities Were Harmed Chekhov's Gun Redshirt Army Evil Brit Author Avatar No-Sell Death Seeker Advertised Extra Darker and Edgier Word of God Super Strength Horror Films Cluster F-Bomb Femme Fatale Hypocrite Green-Eyed Monster Moment Killer One Steve Limit Our Vampires Are Different Artistic License – Gun Safety The Stinger Only a Flesh Wound Lock and Load Montage Insistent Terminology Wrong Genre Savvy Immune to Bullets Men Are the Expendable Gender Police Brutality Beauty Is Never Tarnished Canadian Movies Spiteful Spit Anti-Hero Badass Boast Truth in Television Brick Joke Almost Kiss Fatal Flaw Black Dude Dies First The Bully May–December Romance Humiliation Conga Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Is Serious Business Title Drop Heroic Sacrifice French Films Evil-Detecting Dog Due to the Dead Dual Wielding Dirty Cop Corrupt Corporate Executive Driven to Suicide Gilligan Cut Vitriolic Best Buds Unspoken Plan Guarantee Malevolent Masked Men Asshole Victim Gender Flip Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Killed Mid-Sentence Character Development Crazy Jealous Guy My Beloved Smother Large Ham Actor Allusion Gory Discretion Shot Happily Married Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Genre Shift Noodle Incident I Need a Freaking Drink Neck Lift Disney Death The Bad Guy Wins Mr. Exposition The Mafia It's Personal Freudian Excuse Anti-Villain Fanservice Obviously Evil Composite Character Disappeared Dad Enemy Mine Ambiguous Ending Overly Long Gag Ass Shove Abusive Parents Broken Aesop Dramatic Irony Romantic Comedy Punny Name Russian Films And I Must Scream Early Installment Weirdness Anyone Can Die Fiery Redhead Homage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Camera Abuse Eureka Moment Bolivian Army Ending Badass Bookworm Taking You with Me Card-Carrying Villain 20 Minutes into the Future Ms. Fanservice German Films Adaptational Badass Flashback The Power of Love Protagonist Title Show Within a Show folderlabel From Nobody to Nightmare Bloodless Carnage Artistic License – History The Cameo Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Wham Line Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Morality Pet Death by Adaptation Fingore Police are Useless Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Villain with Good Publicity Half the Man He Used to Be Artistic License – Geography Framing Device The Quiet One Lighter and Softer Anachronic Order Fourth Date Marriage What Happened to the Mouse? Index of Film Westerns Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Motor Mouth Genre Savvy Properly Paranoid Action Girl Distracted by the Sexy Stock Footage Jump Scare Bond Villain Stupidity Bittersweet Ending Stealth Hi/Bye Victoria's Secret Compartment Casting Gag Vomit Discretion Shot Laser-Guided Karma The Cavalry Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Adaptation Distillation Award-Bait Song The Ditz Hero Antagonist One-Man Army Eiffel Tower Effect Hell Is That Noise Race Against the Clock Better to Die than Be Killed Leitmotif Unresolved Sexual Tension Genre Throwback Combat Pragmatist The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Handicapped Badass The Un-Reveal Affectionate Parody Does This Remind You of Anything? 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There Is No Kill Like Overkill Continuity Nod Conspicuous CG Danny Peary Cult Movies List Wounded Gazelle Gambit Male Gaze Be Careful What You Wish For Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality I Did What I Had to Do Star-Crossed Lovers Naked People Are Funny Broken Bird Bait-and-Switch The Great Depression Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Training Montage Artistic License – Military Based on a True Story A Date with Rosie Palms Central Theme Adapted Out Epic Fail Naïve Newcomer Mighty Whitey Blood Knight Non-Indicative Name Tranquil Fury My Greatest Failure Together in Death Foreshadowing Idiot Ball She Cleans Up Nicely Auto Erotica Four-Temperament Ensemble Creative Closing Credits Those Two Guys Major Injury Underreaction Love Triangle The Sociopath Mexican Standoff The Hero Dies Double-Meaning Title Lampshade Hanging Cool Car Accidental Murder Empathic Environment Disney Villain Death Shoot the Shaggy Dog No-Holds-Barred Beatdown "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Animal Title Index Funny Foreigner Scenery Gorn Psycho for Hire Amoral Attorney Dark Action Girl Camp Gay Karmic Death Bar Brawl Cool Guns Stepford Smiler Grievous Bottley Harm Gratuitous English Sinister Minister Creator Cameo Artistic License – Physics Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Toplessness from the Back Your Cheating Heart Only in It for the Money Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Alcoholic Made of Explodium Foil Anguished Declaration of Love Red Shirt Insult Backfire Playing Gertrude Exactly What It Says on the Tin Big Damn Heroes Jitter Cam Take a Third Option Took a Level in Badass Betty and Veronica Five-Man Band Calling the Old Man Out Scare Chord Pyrrhic Victory Knife Nut Whole Plot Reference Soundtrack Dissonance Black Best Friend Shirtless Scene Getting Crap Past the Radar The Oner Twist Ending Instant Death Bullet Loads and Loads of Characters All There in the Script Gold Digger Intergenerational Friendship Trailers Always Spoil All Just a Dream Yandere Face–Heel Turn Cloudcuckoolander Every Car Is a Pinto Pre-Mortem One-Liner Get Out! The Ghost Never My Fault For Want of a Nail Hollywood Law Dark Is Not Evil