Tropescilloscope: Creative Closing Credits

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

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