Tropical Epilogue: Difference between revisions

''Drinking fresh mango juice''

''Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes''

 

The final shot of a story is a character relaxing on a sun lounger with a fruity [[Umbrella Drink]], looking [[Happy Ending|pleased with himself]] on a sun lounger. Most likely wearing a colourful [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist|Hawaiian shirt]] amid a sea of [[Hula and Luaus]]. Neither of which is to say this is [[Hollywood Geography|actually supposed to be Hawaii]] (which would be a ''really stupid'' place for an American to [[Run for the Border|flee to...]]) - it's more likely to be somewhere in the [[Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon|Caribbean]] or South America.

This is the natural result of a successful [[Run for the Border]].

 

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The [[Batman]] storyline ''Heart of Hush'' ends on this note. Catwoman is relaxing at a resort {{spoiler|while recovering from getting her heart ripped out}}, recording a message for Hush explaining how she got her revenge.

 

 

== Film ==

''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|And so, we hear, do the girls!]]'' }}

* The two final conspirators in ''[[Wild Things]]'' are on a boat, and are assumed to be off to some sort of island paradise with their ill-gotten money.

* Also the ending of ''Buddy Buddy'' (1981). In that one it is stated earlier that hitman Trabucco has already picked a tropical island to retire to that he intends to buy if he finishes his last job.

* ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'' has this—only interrupted by the American agents trying to recruit Wallace.

* ''Dark Passage'' ends with Bogart and Bacall reuniting in Peru.

* Amusingly subverted with Alec Guinness' character in ''The Lavender Hill Mob''.

 

== Literature ==

* Played with in [[Matthew Reilly]]'s ''Ice Station''. The fate of a minor character from the backstory is revealed when the epilogue zips to a South American beach, where {{spoiler|a scavenger finds debris in the ocean from the character's crashed plane}}.

 

* Hillary Briss in ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]''

* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', Harry Maybourne spends some time like this after being convicted of treason, though he eventually ends up opting for an off-planet exile instead.

* In the ''[[Sherlock]]'' episode "The Great Game", one of the crimes that Moriarty arranges and [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|subsequently has Sherlock expose]] is a character's plan to do this.

 

== Music ==

** Jimmy Buffett in general likes to present himself as such - the fact that he's extremely wealthy means it is some degree of [[Truth in Television]] for him.

* Subverted in the Zac Brown Band song "Toes", where everything is great for the tourist... until he runs out of money.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The "Quest for Fruit" adventure in ''[[GURPS]] [[Discworld]] Also'' states that, in accordance with the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]], the Hwondaland trading post ''must'' contain at least one white-suited Ankh-Morporkian expat, who can never return for some unspecified reason.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* If you lose the game [[Mario Is Missing|''Mario's Time Machine'']], then [[Big Bad|Bowser]] will do this.

 

* The cast of ''[[Bob and George]]'' pulled their own variation of a [[Time Travel Escape]] by faking their deaths and retiring to Acapulco. See it [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/070728 here].

* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' example: [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/540.html here].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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