Tropescilloscope: Bittersweet Ending

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

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