History Film / ThisIsTheEnd

* BullyingADragon: James Franco taunts a cannibalistic Danny McBride as he's being ascended to Heaven. Unsurprisingly, he gets disposed from the Rapture, thus giving Danny the opportunity to eat him alive.

** [[spoiler:Craig Robinson distracts a spoiler:demon so that the group can escape spoiler:and is taken to heaven.]]

Not to be confused with ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' or ''Film/TheWorldsEnd''.

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:First Danny is exiled by the others, although at the moment, we don't know if he lives or dies. Jonah winds up getting possessed and later incinerated in the fire that destroys James' house. Craig, sacrificing himself, is Raptured to Heaven. Danny returns as the leader of a group of cannibals, who eat James. Seth and Jay are ultimately Raptured as well for confessing what they did wrong, and reunite with Craig.]]

** The conversation that the group has about [[spoiler:Emma Watson. The guys are ''not'' talking about raping Emma, but about how they don't want her to feel threatened by the presence of six men staying in a house with her. Unfortunately for them, Emma [[OutOfContextEavesdropping hears only a bit of the conversation]] and reacts accordingly.]]

* PlotHole: What was the point of saving food for later such as frozen pizza, eggs, bacon, cheese, steaks and milk if the power was out and there was no refrigerator to keep all those foods cool?

* AdamWesting: Everyone involved plays a (probably) more stupid and mean version of themselves. Especially Michael Cera, who is depicted as an obnoxious, coke-snorting, ass-slapping {{Jerkass}}.

** Vast majority of deaths in the film are this really since it is the Apocalypse; whether or not you go to Heaven is based on your moral merit. Commit something bad, you're likely going to die very soon. Like Michael Cera dying immediately after accusing people of stealing his cell phone and acting like a snob about it. Or the cashier who forced a little kid to buy something in order to use the bathroom. She was the first to die.

* SexualKarma: [[spoiler:Jonah.]]

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[spoiler:Channing Tatum, as said by Seth and Danny.]]

** At the beginning Jay and Seth are watching news on TV about a sinkhole in Guatemala [[spoiler:foreshadowing the one that opens near james Franco's house]].

* GilliganCut: Seth is on a Cleansing Diet and refuses to eat Gluten or Carbs or anything that's bad for you. The scene cuts to him and Jay eating Carls Jr.

-->'''Emma Watson''': Back the fuck up! ''[...]'' I'm not '''''[[SuddenlyShouting FUCKING AROUND!!!!!!!!!]]'''''[...]''Hurry the fuck up!

* PrecisionFStrike: In a film full of swearing, two from Emma Watson stand out.
-->'''Emma Watson''': Back the fuck up! ''[...]'' I'm not '''''[[SuddenlyShouting FUCKING AROUND!!!!!!!!!]]'''''

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler:Satan himself]].

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[spoiler:Channing Tatum, as said by Seth Rogen and Danny Mcbride.]]

** [[spoiler:Danny [=McBride=]]] but who didn't see that coming?

** [[spoiler: Craig Robinson]] distracts a [[spoiler:demon]] so that the group can escape [[spoiler:and is taken to heaven.]]
** [[spoiler:James Franco]] distracts a group of cannibals [[spoiler:led by Danny [=McBride=] ]]so that [[spoiler:Jay and Seth]] can escape. [[spoiler:He's about to be taken to heaven like Craig, but mocks Danny over the victory and is left behind to be eaten.]]
** [[spoiler:Seth]] chooses to stay and die so that [[spoiler:Jay can ascend to heaven, but his sacrifice earns him a ticket as well.]]

* EvilIsBigger: The Demons are mostly huge, [[spoiler:specially Satan himself in the end.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Jay

* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Craig has one after a huge piece of rubble flies right past him...and he cuts his finger.

** A fundamental tenet of Christianity is that no one can be good enough to earn being saved.

''This Is the End'' is an action comedy film directed by Evan Goldberg and Creator/SethRogen, and written by Rogen, Goldberg and Jason Stone. The film stars Creator/JamesFranco, Creator/JonahHill, Creator/SethRogen, Creator/JayBaruchel, Creator/DannyMcBride, and Creator/CraigRobinson as fictional versions of themselves in the aftermath of a global apocalypse.

** Michael Cera. As Danny put it, “Guess if Michael Cera’s gone it’s not a total loss.”

** Michael Cera.

* DevilButNoGod: Despite the film's disaster being The Biblical Rapture, God doesn't seem to make an appearence or get mentioned at all. He's not even shown when the heroes [[spoiler: get taken to Heaven]]. Meanwhile the Devil does appear [[spoiler: at the ending]].

** A decaptitation is not as clean as the media portrays it. When a random stranger gets his body ripped off, leaving his behind. Jonah tries to, respectfully, move the head but is quickly repulsed by the '''gallons''' of blood pouring out of it.

* RealityEnsues: When [[spoiler:Jonah gets raped by a demon]] it's played for BlackComedy. But he seems visibly shaken by it. He even [[TruthInTelevision skirts around talking about it]] on the ConfessionCam, only mentioning something along the lines of "...something not cool happened last night..."

* RedHerring: At first, Jonah Hill's mention of his LBS (Low Blood Sugar) would come into play but it never does. [[spoiler:When Hill has a seizure, Seth and James make the assumption that its one of these, but he's actually being possessed by a demon.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Danny gives one to each actor in the house concerning their acting abilities, except Jay, [[spoiler: who Danny then reveals that he knew that Jay, who claims to hate being in L.A. and its lifestyle, two months before the events of the film, relaxing at the Four Seasons, calling him out as the biggest hypocrite of the group.]]