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