Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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