Tropescilloscope: Here We Go Again!

The story ends the same way it started. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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