Tropescilloscope: Apocalypse How

A catastrophe occurs on a scale anywhere between localised and the destruction of reality itself. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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