Tropescilloscope: The Stinger

A scene after the end of the program. (read more at tvtropes.org)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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