Tropescilloscope: Bittersweet Ending

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

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