Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Ending

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

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