Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

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

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