Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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