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