Tropescilloscope: Creative Closing Credits

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

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Black and Gray Morality Sci-Fi Horror One-Word Title Rule of Symbolism Humiliation Conga Diabolus ex Machina Face–Heel Turn Posthumous Character Love at First Sight Animal Motifs Bolivian Army Ending Extreme Doormat Get Out! Blackmail Face Death with Dignity Every Car Is a Pinto Pragmatic Villainy Villain Opening Scene Pet the Dog Broken Pedestal Calling the Old Man Out Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Jerkass As the Good Book Says... Race Lift Fatal Flaw Wrong Genre Savvy Same Language Dub Humans Are Bastards Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! She's Got Legs Artistic License – Gun Safety Wham Line "Shaggy Dog" Story Big Bad Duumvirate Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Ditz You Have Failed Me Fatal Family Photo Take a Third Option The Smurfette Principle Big Damn Heroes Alpha Bitch Jerkass Has a Point Film Noir Foregone Conclusion Visual Pun Amoral Attorney Vampire Fiction The Mafia Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ominous Latin Chanting No Name Given The Musical Military and Warfare Films Insane Troll Logic Random Events Plot Evil Is Petty Eiffel Tower Effect Cool Guns Death Seeker Deliberately Monochrome A Minor Kidroduction Spiteful Spit Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Playing Gertrude Heterosexual Life-Partners Protagonist Title Cool Old Guy Stuff Blowing Up The Smart Guy It's All About Me Redemption Equals Death Bi the Way Rated M for Manly Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Spell My Name with an "S" The Starscream Adaptation Name Change Dogged Nice Guy Improbable Aiming Skills Line-of-Sight Name Captain Obvious Those Wacky Nazis Ambiguous Ending "Well Done, Son!" 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Video Credits Hero Antagonist Drives Like Crazy Riddle for the Ages Disproportionate Retribution Evil Brit Bloody Hilarious Epic Fail Outrun the Fireball Insult Backfire World of Ham A God Am I She Cleans Up Nicely Darkest Hour Final Girl Non-Indicative Name Dark Is Not Evil Chewing the Scenery Dirty Old Man Dramatic Gun Cock Downer Ending Time Skip Scary Black Man Faux Affably Evil Science Fiction Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Big-Bad Ensemble Interrupted Suicide Hollywood Law No Celebrities Were Harmed Adaptational Attractiveness Actually Pretty Funny Badass Normal Hooker with a Heart of Gold Jump Scare Freeze-Frame Bonus The Atoner Daddy's Girl Fate Worse than Death My God, What Have I Done? Silence Is Golden Australian Movies Blood from the Mouth Reckless Gun Usage Batman Gambit Stealth Hi/Bye The Casanova Cain and Abel Flashback Slasher Smile Evil Plan Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mugging the Monster Hidden Depths Abhorrent Admirer Last-Name Basis Be Careful What You Wish For Central Theme Italian Films Action Girl Self-Deprecation Never Trust a Trailer A Date with Rosie Palms Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Authority Equals Asskicking Ambiguous Disorder Dirty Coward Break the Haughty Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Intergenerational Friendship Ungrateful Bastard Femme Fatale Deconstruction Light Is Not Good Neck Snap Creepy Child Leave the Camera Running Heroic BSoD I'm a Humanitarian Overprotective Dad Asshole Victim Undying Loyalty Spiritual Successor Drill Sergeant Nasty Hate Sink Redshirt Army Kick the Son of a Bitch Wounded Gazelle Gambit Historical-Domain Character The Lost Lenore Rule of Three Eyepatch of Power Sadistic Choice An Aesop The Power of Love You Killed My Father The Un-Reveal Establishing Character Moment Ghost Fiction No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Bully Precision F-Strike Monumental Damage Ax-Crazy Cool Old Lady Properly Paranoid British Films Big "NO!" Groin Attack I Did What I Had to Do Thriller Brother–Sister Incest Car Fu Mr. Fanservice Wretched Hive And the Adventure Continues Superhero Adult Fear Maybe Ever After Antagonist Title The Sociopath Driven to Suicide Pyrrhic Victory The '80s Curse Cut Short Nice Guy The Chick Cluster F-Bomb The Ace Bond Villain Stupidity Beta Couple Bitch in Sheep's Clothing No Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Toplessness from the Back Show Within a Show Bare Your Midriff Villain Ball Madness Mantra Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Attempted Rape Meaningful Background Event Pay Evil unto Evil Would Hurt a Child Psychological Thriller Only Known by Their Nickname Killed Mid-Sentence Shipper on Deck Tap on the Head Totally Radical Red Oni, Blue Oni Homage Police Brutality Japanese Films Extremely Short Timespan Needs Wiki Magic Love Decoy Protagonist Never My Fault Room Full of Crazy No OSHA Compliance Gilligan Cut Plucky Comic Relief All There in the Manual French Films Grey and Gray Morality Dual Wielding Death Glare Knight Templar Idiot Ball Mystery and Detective Films Fiery Redhead Double-Meaning Title Conspicuous CG Married to the Job Improvised Weapon Fun with Acronyms Artistic License – Geography Deliberate Values Dissonance Film Series Grievous Bottley Harm Heel–Face Turn Narrator Anti-Villain Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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One Steve Limit Genre Savvy Fish out of Water Rousing Speech Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Spanner in the Works Handicapped Badass Bad "Bad Acting" Composite Character Belligerent Sexual Tension Gainax Ending Corpsing Soft Glass And Starring Air-Vent Passageway Evil Sounds Deep Jitter Cam Running Gag Race Against the Clock Mercy Kill Bloodless Carnage Chekhov's Gunman Dark and Troubled Past Adaptational Badass This Is Gonna Suck Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Author Avatar Obviously Evil Fainting The Chessmaster Early Installment Weirdness Catch-Phrase Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Mama Bear Leitmotif Based on a True Story Frame-Up Reasonable Authority Figure Kubrick Stare Fan Disservice Morality Pet Setting Update The Big Guy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Stalker with a Crush Straight Gay 20 Minutes into the Future Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bar Brawl Villain Song The Ghost Reality Is Unrealistic Public Domain Feature Films Film Noir Index Parental Substitute Unwitting Instigator of Doom Whole Plot Reference Arc Words Unusual Euphemism Card-Carrying Villain Match Cut Eagleland Blatant Lies Age Lift Villain with Good Publicity Ironic Echo Shout-Out From Bad to Worse Kick the Dog Artistic License – History Failed a Spot Check Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sequel Hook For the Evulz Aluminum Christmas Trees Big Brother Instinct No-Sell Took a Level in Jerkass Translation Convention '80s Hair In Medias Res Lighter and Softer Armor-Piercing Question Domestic Abuse Too Dumb to Live Immune to Bullets Expy Suspiciously Specific Denial Music Stories Honor Before Reason Demoted to Extra Mind Screw Chase Scene Shirtless Scene Pretty in Mink Disney Death Meet Cute Gender Flip Villainous Breakdown Sacrificial Lion Take That! Horror Comedy Unresolved Sexual Tension Imagine Spot Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dumb Blonde Red Right Hand Lock and Load Montage Important Haircut The Mole Irony Sinister Minister Rule of Funny Crapsack World Parental Incest A Father to His Men Roaring Rampage of Revenge Annoying Younger Sibling Bloodier and Gorier Jerk Jock Punch-Clock Villain timeperiod Adults Are Useless Mood Whiplash As Himself Disappeared Dad Call-Forward Agony of the Feet Off with His Head! Here We Go Again! 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Is Serious Business Continuity Nod Bowdlerise Stylistic Suck Gratuitous English Paper-Thin Disguise The Dreaded Overly Long Gag All Just a Dream Red Eyes, Take Warning Dies Wide Open Man on Fire Adapted Out Skewed Priorities Wicked Cultured No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Genre Shift Left the Background Music On Rasputinian Death Sealed Evil in a Can Greater-Scope Villain Pre-Mortem One-Liner Deal with the Devil Covers Always Lie Dissonant Serenity Bald of Evil Facial Horror Manly Tears Shoot the Shaggy Dog Papa Wolf Amusing Injuries Blood Knight It Can Think Guile Hero Distracted by the Sexy Artistic License – Physics Arch-Enemy Nothing Is Scarier Kill 'em All Deus ex Machina Unusually Uninteresting Sight Stepford Smiler Book-Ends Break the Cutie Mighty Whitey Anti-Hero Shown Their Work Black Dude Dies First Depraved Bisexual Sexy Discretion Shot Fat Bastard Scenery Gorn Berserk Button All There in the Script Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Only One Name Horror Films Hell Is That Noise Unspoken Plan Guarantee Retirony Badass Longcoat The '90s The Alleged Car Despair Event Horizon Dramatic Irony Mythology Gag Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Romantic False Lead Aww, Look! 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Accidental Misnaming Costume Porn Character Development The Stinger Camera Abuse Fanservice Those Two Bad Guys Creative Closing Credits Dropped a Bridge on Him Not So Stoic Crazy Jealous Guy Dull Surprise Very Loosely Based on a True Story MacGuffin Only in It for the Money Empathic Environment The Hero Meaningful Echo Karmic Death Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cruel and Unusual Death Sole Survivor Heroic Sacrifice Throwing Your Sword Always Works Parental Neglect Sanity Slippage Five-Man Band Broken Bird N-Word Privileges Shut Up, Hannibal! You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Death by Sex Older Than They Look Earn Your Happy Ending Our Vampires Are Different Death of a Child Historical In-Joke The Alcoholic Anachronism Stew Gold Digger Genre Throwback Captain Ersatz May–December Romance Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Your Cheating Heart Product Placement Black Comedy Rape Informed Ability Friend to All Children Ship Tease Canon Foreigner Badass in a Nice Suit Fire-Forged Friends Drowning My Sorrows Bunny-Ears Lawyer B-Movie Make It Look Like an Accident Big Eater Manchild Combat Pragmatist Black Best Friend The '70s Refuge in Audacity