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