Inverted: A show starts with The End of the World as We Know It... and the event is resolved during the early moments of the work. A kind of "undoing the apocalypse at the very beginning".
Subverted: A show develops normally until the climax, where The End of the World as We Know It happens. Then something or someone happens, and the whole thing is undone. Cue the credits.
Double Subverted: A show develops normally until the climax, where The End of the World as We Know It happens. Then something or someone happens, and the whole thing is undone. Except that something else nobody bothered to check re-triggers the apocalypse. Cue the credits.
Parodied: A show develops normally until the climax, where The End of the World as We Know It happens. Except that it's just a bunch of aliens coming in peace. Cue the credits.
Deconstructed: A show develops normally until the climax, where The End of the World as We Know It happens. Since the world is in disarray, the governments are taken by surprise by the cataclysmic event. Cue the credits.
Reconstructed: Same as Deconstructed, except that the world governments take notice of the event and quickly develop a plan to avoid The End of the World as We Know It. It fails due to oversights or lack of time to properly plan or execute a plan. Cue the credits.
Zigzagged: During the transcourse of the movie, different world-ending events, cataclysms and apocalypses are triggered and then swiftly cancelled.
Averted: A show develops normally, and at no point in the work the world ends.
Invoked: The Big Bad, who's a sadistic Omnicidal Maniac, holds in secret his plan until late in the story when he reveals it just as it happens.
Defied: The work develops normally, The End of the World as We Know It happens, but the heroes develop a quick and effective plan to stop it. Cue the credits before the resolution takes place.
Exploited: The Big Bad, who's a sadistic Omnicidal Maniac, holds in secret his plan until late in the story when he reveals it just as it happens. Also one of the good guys was The Mole all along and is given the "honor" to press the world-ending button. Cue the credits.
