Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

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