Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

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