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