Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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