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