Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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