Tropescilloscope: Foregone Conclusion

The audience knows how the story ends before it begins. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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And the Adventure Continues Make It Look Like an Accident Offscreen Teleportation Heroic Sacrifice Hair-Trigger Temper Deliberate Values Dissonance Those Two Bad Guys Establishing Character Moment Death Glare Sealed Evil in a Can Cat Scare Say My Name Exactly What It Says on the Tin Handicapped Badass Mr. Exposition Jerkass Well-Intentioned Extremist The Bully The Starscream The Dragon Award-Bait Song Red Herring Animal Title Index Stock Footage Implacable Man Never Trust a Trailer Sassy Black Woman Black Dude Dies First Room Full of Crazy Breaking the Fourth Wall Bald of Evil The Smart Guy Not Quite Dead Captain Obvious Badass Longcoat Crazy-Prepared Rule of Three Corrupt Corporate Executive Woman Scorned Sadistic Choice Aluminum Christmas Trees Getting Crap Past the Radar Casting Gag Creator Cameo Fanservice Extra Dark Action Girl Morality Pet Lampshade Hanging Chekhov's Skill Danny Peary Cult Movies List Slap-Slap-Kiss Demoted to Extra Psychopathic Manchild Setting Update Only Sane Man Break the Haughty Badass Grandpa Tagline Would Hit a Girl Blood from the Mouth Precision F-Strike Spared by the Adaptation Heel–Face Turn Here We Go Again! 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