Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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