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