Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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