Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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