Tropescilloscope: Creative Closing Credits

Something interesting or fun (or both) happens during the closing credits. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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