Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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