Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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