History Main / TropicalEpilogue

** Suggested by Dr. Neo Cortex in the bad ending of ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' as an idea or what to do now that he's been beaten yet again, shortly before [[TheManBehindTheMan his boss, UkaUka]] reminds him they could still triumph by getting all the gems.
** The trope turns up as the bad ending for ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack''; Crash and Coco sit on a beach with one of the [[{{Mooks}} crabs]] from the first game, and discuss what happened to the [[KillSat Cortex Vortex]].

* The cast of ''WebComic/BobAndGeorge'' pulled their own variation of a TimeTravelEscape by faking their deaths and retiring to Acapulco. [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/070728 See it here.]]
* ''WebComic/IrregularWebcomic'' example: [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/540.html here.]]
* In ''WebComic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-12-07 Satan assures Slick that Hell's like a tropical getaway.]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-01-28 He opted for the real thing, himself.]]

** Another song of theirs ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZN0KogeV4A Knee Deep]]'', is perhaps a slightly more successful example.

* The cast of ''WebComic/BobAndGeorge'' pulled their own variation of a TimeTravelEscape by faking their deaths and retiring to Acapulco. See it [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/070728 here]].
* ''WebComic/IrregularWebcomic'' example: [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/540.html here]].

* In ''Series/StargateSG1'', Harry Maybourne spends some time like this after being convicted of treason, though he eventually ends up opting for an off-planet exile instead.

** After the first battle between the original Hobgoblin and the original Green Goblin, we get an epilogue where Hobby is sitting on a tropical island with no extradition treaties, sipping a cocktail and happy to retire on what's left of his original fortune. Given that at the start of the story he'd been outed and in jail, and [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl any time]] [[Creator/DanSlott he's returned]] it's been as a pure MagnificentBastard.

The final shot of a story is a character relaxing on a sun lounger with a fruity umbrella drink, looking [[HappyEnding pleased with himself]] on a sun lounger. Most likely wearing a colorful [[HawaiianShirtedTourist Hawaiian shirt]] amid a sea of HulaAndLuaus. Neither of which is to say this is [[HollywoodGeography actually supposed to be Hawaii]] (which would be a ''really stupid'' place for an American to [[RunForTheBorder flee to...]]) -- it's more likely to be somewhere in LatinLand, the [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon Caribbean]] or [[TropicalIslandAdventure Oceania in general]]. British media has its own variation, usually involving the Costa del Sol, a famed retreat of British gangsters, or even Blackpool, where many Scottish gangsters avoided heat. More modern works will substitute [[HolidayInCambodia Southeast]] [[EastIndies Asia]].

* ''[[Franchise/CarmenSandiego Where in the U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego]]'': If the player loses by capturing the wrong member of V.I.L.E., the game ends by showing the acquitted villain enjoying a tropical vacation.

* At the end of ''Film/TheChase'' (1994), we see that fugitive lovers Jack Hammond and Natalie Voss have fallen into this lifestyle after fleeing to Mexico.

* Cruelly subverted in the ''Series/Monk'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend". Captain Stottlemeyer had intended to take his girlfriend Linda on a trip to Hawaii to propose, instead she's arrested for murdering her real estate partner. Stottlemeyer goes to Hawaii, but ends up giving Linda's ticket to Lieutenant Disher. The episode ends with Disher asking Stottlemeyer if Linda was just using the Captain all along; meanwhile Stottlemeyer throws the engagement ring he bought for Linda into the ocean.

''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar And so, we hear, do the girls!]]''

* The first ''Charlie's Angels'' movie ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.

* ''Film/XXx'' ends by Vin Diesel finally traveling to Bora Bora.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' titled "The Worry Men" features the Mad Hatter admitting that he's been thinking of retiring from crime, purchasing an island out in the middle of nowhere, and opening up a sun-bonnet shop.

** After the first battle between the original Hobgoblin and the original Green Goblin, we get an epilogue where Hobby is sitting on a tropical island with no extradition treaties, sipping a cocktail and happy to retire on what's left of his original fortune. Given that at the start of the story he'd been outed and in jail, and [[Comics/SpiderGirl any time]] [[Creator/DanSlott he's returned]] it's been as a pure MagnificentBastard.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' involves a congregation of Seelengut (sheep people) being led by an, apparently, reformed [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Blutbad]] reverend (that's right, a wolf preaching to sheep), who is secretly stealing from the church along with his Seelengut wife. When the wife finds out that he has knocked up another Seelengut, she throws him to the angry Seelengut to be ripped apart and runs away with the money and her husband's girlfriend to a tropical beach.

* A NonStandardGameOver for ''VideoGame/{{Rayman 2}}'' has Rayman accept a ton of money instead of the PlotCoupon and living life in a tropical paradise surrounded by money.

* The two final conspirators in ''Film/WildThings'' are on a boat and are assumed to be off to some sort of island paradise with their ill-gotten money.

* The first Charlie' Angels movie ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.

* ''{{Film/Charlie'sAngels(2000)}}'' ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.

* ''Film/Charlie'sAngels(2000)'' ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.

* The 2000 ''Film/Charlie'sAngels'' movie ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.

* The 2000 ''Film/Charlie'sAngels(Film)'' ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.

* ''Film/Charlie'sAngels'' (2000) ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.

* ''Film/Charlie's Angels (2000)'' ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.

The final shot of a story is a character relaxing on a sun lounger with a fruity UmbrellaDrink, looking [[HappyEnding pleased with himself]] on a sun lounger. Most likely wearing a colourful [[HawaiianShirtedTourist Hawaiian shirt]] amid a sea of HulaAndLuaus. Neither of which is to say this is [[HollywoodGeography actually supposed to be Hawaii]] (which would be a ''really stupid'' place for an American to [[RunForTheBorder flee to...]]) -- it's more likely to be somewhere in LatinLand, the [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon Caribbean]] or [[TropicalIslandAdventure Oceania in general]]. British media has its own variation, usually involving the Costa del Sol, a famed retreat of British gangsters, or even Blackpool, where many Scottish gangsters avoided heat. More modern works will substitute [[HolidayInCambodia Southeast]] [[EastIndies Asia]].

* One episode of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' had the team doing a heist in order to complete their mission. The end of the episode has the the leader and her lancer lounging next to a pool in the sun reflecting on their success... aaand then DaChief shows up and [[ProsceniumReveal turns off the holographic backdrop]].

** In one story, Mysterio's ultimate goal when he takes over the Maggia is to grab as much money as he can, and "buy an island in the tropics where I can sit under palm trees and drink things out of coconuts". At the end of the story, Mysterio is taking a sunbath wearing a colourful [[HawaiianShirtedTourist Hawaiian shirt]] under the palm trees... [[SubvertedTrope of an enormous sign at his department roof]], thinking about how much he hates Spider-Man.

** Another story, made by creative team of ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'', has the story's secondary antagonist, a BlackWidow who almost got her claws into Bruce Wayne, chilling on a beach in South America, planning her next 'conquest'...[[ParanoiaFuel until someone passes a note along from Batman]].

* ''Comicbook/TheLosers'': The surviving Losers are somewhere with palm trees, apparently off the agency's radar. When Stegler tries to recruit them for a new unit to fix the company's mistakes, [[spoiler: Jensen]] declines him quite decisively in a SplashPage.

* The two final conspirators in ''Film/WildThings'' 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 ''Film/BuddyBuddy'' (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.

* ''Film/XXx'' ends by Vin Diesel finally travelling to Bora Bora.

* Referenced by Zephram Cochrane in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''; this is what he plans to do after his warp engine makes him filthy rich, to Will Riker's amusement. According to the series he would later retire to a human colony in the Alpha Centauri system. Canon is as yet silent about what the beaches are like there.

* ''Film/BuffaloSoldiers'': At the end Pvt. Elwood gets away basically scott-free with his crimes and ends up getting redeployed to a U.S. base in Hawaii where he can continue his schemes.

* At the end of ''Literature/CaptainVorpatrilsAlliance'', after what initially seems to be a case of ReassignedToAntarctica, Ivan manages to alter it to this instead by realising that there's absolutely no reason why their planetary embassy needs to be in the rainswept capital rather than somewhere near the equator.

* As perhaps evidenced by the theme song, ''Series/RedDwarf'''s Lister dreams of getting back to Earth and setting up a burger bar on Fiji with his cat. Technically speaking, this is the SeriesGoal of the whole programme - if only because the main characters are so hopelessly screwed that no-one can come up with a better plan.

* The third season of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' ends with the entire team on vacation in Aruba (after they tried and failed to do so in the second season finale). Of course it ends with a SequelHook thanks to Constantine, but still.

* The KarmaHoudini VillainProtagonist of ''[[Music/WarrenZevon Mister Bad Example]]'' does this twice. First he flies to Adelaide with a Monte Carlo prostitute's stolen passport, then to Sri Lanka on a Malaysian Air flight he paid for with stolen wages from his Australian opal mining company.

* Music/WallOfVoodoo: Stan Ridgway (in his solo after the split) sings of the taxi driver who dreams of this trope, being together with the bankrobber woman who hijacked his car as a getaway. [[AvertedTrope No such luck]] - "Drive She Said"!

** Suggested by Dr Neo Cortex in the bad ending of ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' as an idea or what to do now that he's been beaten yet again, shortly before [[TheManBehindTheMan his boss, UkaUka]] reminds him they could still triumph by getting all the gems.

* ''VideoGame/BadMojo'' ends with the protagonist and his long lost father using a bunch of stolen money to retire to the Carribean.