Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

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