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