Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

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

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