Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

The ending of a work is left open to the viewer's interpretation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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