Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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