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