Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

Subversion of presupposed ending. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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