Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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