Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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