Tropescilloscope: All for Nothing

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

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