Tropescilloscope: All for Nothing

The results of a complex story/plot are all undone in one fell swoop. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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