Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

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