Tropescilloscope: Creative Closing Credits

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

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