Tropescilloscope: Bittersweet Ending

An ending that's more or less happy, but still has significant sad notes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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