Tropescilloscope: Bittersweet Ending

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

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