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