Tropescilloscope: Earn Your Happy Ending

Characters go through hell.... but end up happy in the end as a result. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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