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