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