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