Tropescilloscope: Bittersweet Ending

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

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