Tropescilloscope: Earn Your Happy Ending

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

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