Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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