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