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