Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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