Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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