Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

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

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