Tropescilloscope: Twist Ending

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

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