Tropescilloscope: After the End

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

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