Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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